Pilates and Pain Relief
This isn't a pagan post per say, but rather a personal one. I wanted to post a short blurb about something that has helped me find pain relief when everything else failed. That something is pilates. I was involved in a car accident at the age of about 14 which unbeknownst to me at the time resulted in significant deterioration of one of my lower spinal disks. Being overweight never helped the matter, and as a result the injury never truly healed. I never had significant problems with it until I began working in my early twenties. I loved my job as a baker, but the labor involved resulted in me having numerous back injuries which after about four years led me to quit. During those four years, I sprained my back and was crippled for weeks on numerous occasions. It became normal for me to sprained my back about three times a year. After quitting the job, I did not sprain my back again for about a year, but I lived with constant daily back pain. It did not respond to anything, be...