Anyone with a bad back?

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Five years ago rock climbing in Thailand, doing an overhanging cliff of some 150 metres, top pitch, sat on a stainless steel bolt drilled into cliff- gave way, fell 7 metres onto a belay ledge -wedge fractures to two vertebra in thoracic spine.

First 6 months had to take it very easy, now back into doing rock climbing and even having little falls onto ropes-have to make sure I do not load compressively my spine in similar fall scenario as the fractured bone have lost strength.

I still get pain in the spine, bending over desk working on files under stress, whipper snipping garden with a heavy petrol unit over 1.5 hours-but you just learn to live with the pain.

What I do is swimming in an outdoor ocean pool- laps, and gym with pull ups and hanging. Orthopaedic surgeons always advocate to back injured people, give up smoking, swim, and exercise, and keep weight down.

A lot of other "treatment" is snakeoil....