I am sure that 41mag had me beat by a mile but this is what a bad back looks like compared to a relatively healthy looking spine looks like as well.
If you look at the films the real shiney white disk are the nice healthy disc. The black and squished disk are bad. You can also see where the disc are herniated and bulging out pressing on nerves. That is what causes the unreal pain. Plus the disc have no cushion. They are just hard. Imagine. Going down the road in a car with no springs or shocks on it. It would beat you to death.
Also in the front view you can see the curvature of the spine. This is from the injury when I was twelve. A chiropractor can not fix this. Believe me I have tried that. Skied it, shot it, got the T. Shirt and went home. The doctors wanted to go in and do surgery but I had a couple of bad experiences with epidural injections.
On the last shot of the second set of epidurals the doctor sunk a needle into a nerve and I literally flopped off the table with the needle still in my back. The right side of my body was paralyzed for about 2 weeks. Scared me to death! I swore I'd never let anybody do any invasive surgery on my back after that debacle.
On the first film or pick if you will the healthy disk at top are nice and shiny white. The bad disc are very dark and you could see in the bottom disc how they bulge out. Those are the ones that have no cushion and are hitting nerves. People think you're pulling your leg when they say they have a back that hurts. Believe me if you've never experienced it you have no clue of what it is or how desperate, angry with a horrible outlook on life. Depression medication helps with this tremendously. If it wasn't for that I'd almost want to give up. You also notice the ones under the dish you can see heavily bulged there are nothing left of it. It's one solid fused piece all the way down to my balls.
Now on the second film you will notice that the spine curves to the right. Imagine walking around feeling like your body is leaning towards the left all the time. Not a comfortable feeling! You can also notice that the vertebra are not curved on the edges they are Sharp. That's from a degenerative disc disease you get when you're younger which is actually quite common. Nonetheless it does not help things. Some of the vertebrae are even cocked a little bit.
If you look at the films the real shiney white disk are the nice healthy disc. The black and squished disk are bad. You can also see where the disc are herniated and bulging out pressing on nerves. That is what causes the unreal pain. Plus the disc have no cushion. They are just hard. Imagine. Going down the road in a car with no springs or shocks on it. It would beat you to death.
Also in the front view you can see the curvature of the spine. This is from the injury when I was twelve. A chiropractor can not fix this. Believe me I have tried that. Skied it, shot it, got the T. Shirt and went home. The doctors wanted to go in and do surgery but I had a couple of bad experiences with epidural injections.
On the last shot of the second set of epidurals the doctor sunk a needle into a nerve and I literally flopped off the table with the needle still in my back. The right side of my body was paralyzed for about 2 weeks. Scared me to death! I swore I'd never let anybody do any invasive surgery on my back after that debacle.
On the first film or pick if you will the healthy disk at top are nice and shiny white. The bad disc are very dark and you could see in the bottom disc how they bulge out. Those are the ones that have no cushion and are hitting nerves. People think you're pulling your leg when they say they have a back that hurts. Believe me if you've never experienced it you have no clue of what it is or how desperate, angry with a horrible outlook on life. Depression medication helps with this tremendously. If it wasn't for that I'd almost want to give up. You also notice the ones under the dish you can see heavily bulged there are nothing left of it. It's one solid fused piece all the way down to my balls.
Now on the second film you will notice that the spine curves to the right. Imagine walking around feeling like your body is leaning towards the left all the time. Not a comfortable feeling! You can also notice that the vertebra are not curved on the edges they are Sharp. That's from a degenerative disc disease you get when you're younger which is actually quite common. Nonetheless it does not help things. Some of the vertebrae are even cocked a little bit.
