Recent content by Cwoolworth56

I have read Alan Gordon’s book and was making decent progress and I paid no mind to the occasional nicotine use until I had read studies about the affect nicotine has on the extra cellular matrix of the discs and blood flow restriction as well as failed surgery results from nicotine blah blah...

So do you think it has no affect to occasionally use things like nicotine when one has chronic pain issues or is total abstinence necessary?

The only connection I could see is that nicotine is a vasoconstrictor and reduces blood flow to the discs. But doing it once or twice a week I think would be more psychological than anything.

I have had chronic low back pain and bad spasms for a few years now. Also diagnosed with l5s1 disc protrusion and stenosis. I used nicotine daily in the form of smokeless tobacco for about a decade but over the last 4 years only on the weekend while having a few beers. I’ve read online how...

I am struggling with whether my pain is structural or mind/body. Had a terrible back spasm over a year ago where I couldn’t move for 12 or so hours. I have had these before but usually the pain would go away after two weeks. Had an MRI 6 months ago that showed a 8-9mm disc protrusion at l5s1. I...

I am struggling with whether my pain is structural or mind/body. Had a terrible back spasm over a year ago where I couldn’t move for 12 or so hours. I have had these before but usually the pain would go away after two weeks. Had an MRI that showed a 8-9mm disc protrusion at l5s1. I have some...