My cousin, same age as me, was in the coast guard. He has disc problems and his Dr. said surgery was needed. If he had gone with back surgery he would have been discharged, something that Lt Cmdr did not want to do. He bought an inversion table and it helped his back to where he finished his career and retired several years later.
I’ll disagree with your dragging a deer out as the best back therapy Stephen. When you have Stenosis and Spondylosis that is not the best therapy. The last deer I shot was a two year old doe two years ago. I was having so much shoulder and back pain I could barely draw a bow so I decided to hunt with my .40 cal flintlock I had recently finished building. Luckily she turned and ran back toward the road and fell less than 100 yards from the truck.
I went to the truck and got my sled, loaded her, and began an hour long ordeal dragging her back to the road. My back and neck hurt to the point I wanted to cry and I still had to load her into the truck. I finally recovered enough that I took the tailgate off and used it as a ramp to drag her up int the bed and haul her to the locker. Excruciating pain mildly describes the feeling after that drag. Thankfully the neck fusion surgery has relieved 85-90% of the problems but I don’t plan on another deer drag.
