Oh haha! I saw my quote in your post and noticed the spelling...I wrote "static" nerve, rather than sciatic nerve ...oh that is so funny. LOL
No worries...I did 8 months with him...three times a week.
He did get me from screaming and yelling every time I had to climb up on his table...to just groaning. It took months...I had done quite a number of it...and sleeping was hard. Some nights it still is if I lay wrong.
But hey...what am I doing...I am talking to the woman who REALLY has back problems!!!!
He's a good man, but retired now.
decompression is really good for these; not sure how you would do "gravity boots" or something similar, at least at first though.
you might start with some senior yoga, and work up; i am seeing quite amazing results among the elderly here in this retirement community, where i currently am,
senior yoga for back pain - YouTube
senior yoga for beginners - YouTube
also, spinal degeneration is usually a combo of lack of exercise and lack of proper nutrition, at least imo; yoga works good for the first one, and for the second i'd make sure my vit D was sufficient, and then provide glucosamine/chondroitin/msm, shark cartilage, or even just eat the gristly parts of the chicken, plus maybe some dark greens or other plant based calcium source. And avoid processed milk entirely if possible, go to raw, goat is better too i guess. Homogenizing milk renders the calcium into shards, google can tell you more on that. Not so bad if your omega 3 is balanced, but really bad if it isn't. your body will regenerate with really minimal help
"Chia Seeds. Two tablespoons of chia seeds contain 177 mg of calcium. Greens. Greens, particularly cooked collard greens, turnip greens, and kale are a great source of calcium. Hemp Milk. Blackstrap Molasses. Sesame Seeds/Tahini. Almond Butter. Beans."
"Keeping your bones strong depends more on preventing the loss of calcium from your body than on boosting your calcium intake."
plant based calcium foods - Google Search
and toss the food pyramid, it's crap, invented by committees with agendas,
should be apparent by now i guess
even the new one