The pain I feel is lower. When my spine is misaligned, I feel it in my belly and my back. I think my posture has a lot to do with misalignment. Being hunched over computer and TV postures compound my pain, pinches nerves, inhibits organ function. So my approach is to counteract that hunch: lengthen, strengthen, hydrate. Stretch backward. Counteract gravity and hunching. Water walking is great too because it lifts your body while you exercise, so it creates space between vertebrae while muscles develop. Walking in the lazy river at our local rec center alleviates a lot of pain.

I have lost an inch of height to these fractures. So everything inside has got to be crowding. My mantra is “strong and long”,