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Sitting balls are fantastic, they force you to arch and maintain the arched back...this in itself can relieve a lot of pressure on nerves.
Stretching exercises are critical to back health as we age. Once you get the results back from your MRI your PT can tell which specific stretches you need for the damage you have-spine vs. SI-joint vs. muscle damage, etc.
I'd like to suggest another weapon you (well all of us) can use to help the back-spine-SI joint and that is water.
Yeah you need to be drinking lots of water but I'm suggestion enough water to float in.
For most that will be a pool but the idea is to become weightless.
I don't want you to swim per se, seriously, just float.
There is a reason NASA used to train underwater. Per Archimedes Principle we are essentially weightless underwater, and you'll still be very close just floating.
At least 4, 6 is better, sessions per week of 30-45 min's of floating.
What will happen is that all pressure on all joints is temporarily (as soon you are floating and relaxed) be removed. All metabolic byproducts that your body is trying to remove from the inflamed area can be more readily removed and easier access is made for all the little machines that repair damaged cells (think T-cells, lymphocytes) and will allow the macrophages to switch from war mode to healing mode. For that 30 min's of wet suspended animation the pressure is off the muscles used for proper alignment (and all the muscles used to maintain proper stance use a lot of energy) and the energy can be directed toward healing/regeneration.
It never hurts to add some raw materials to help the healing=Vit-E,C,Zinc, etc.
Anyway, just another 0.02 thrown your way (from one who has at one point in time been moribund with back issues but can now dance a Tango
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