The past week, I’ve noticed my back had been hurting more so than usual.  Now, I go to the chiropractor a few times a week, get myotherapy remedial massage work done, AND use my foam roller on a every-other night basis (ok, in a perfect world…. but you get my point).  Anyway, I was waking up with the tightest back, resulting me in a horrible mood.  After a few days of that, and not being able to figure out what was going on, I happened to be putting something away underneath the bed when I noticed one of the two support beams was tilted to the side.  About 6 months ago, the mate and I picked up a tempurpedic mattress.  Out here in Oz, for a king, the damn thing costs close to $6k!  My thoughts were, if it costs that much, I’ll never want to get out of bed.  Well, it felt like a dream for the first few months, then it started to heat up, and the mattress went to shit.

Anyway, after fixing one of the support beams, we both woke up the next morning and both of our backs felt great!  GO FIGURE!

Sometimes, it’s the little things that go unnoticed, that cause us to have massive pains in parts of our bodies.   One of my favourite things to do to a stranger, is ask them if they have a bad back, should I find them walking with a big bulge in their back pocket.  Or, another familiar scenario, would be behind someone in line at the grocery store, and watching them put their wallet into their back pocket.  ”Excuse me.  Can I ask you a personal question?”….. “do you ever get back pain?”  9 out of 10 times, the person (usually a man, as most chicks don’t sport a wallet in their back pocket….. we’re too smart for that!) will answer “yes…. how’d you know?”.  By sitting on a wallet, even for a short period of time for 5 minutes, can throw your spine out of whack and misalign you into pain that’s unexplainable.

Just food for thought.  Life is hard to enjoy when you’re experiencing some form of physical pain in your body.