On July 21st, I got up as usual and did some stretches for my knee, as I had started doing again a few weeks before, and was putting my shoes on when I felt a sharp pain in my back. I don’t know why, but I do know that I had done this before. So I had a pretty good idea of what to expect. It is now 10 days later and things feel pretty good. I started to be able to do normal things without a ton of pain after about a week. And as I noted in my previous blog post, ice is better than heat. And lying flat on the floor is quite helpful. Though, getting up from lying on the floor is quite painful. But I think it’ll be back to normal after another week. I’m mainly writing this to note how long things take to get better and how often this is happening.

I also think that I might look into joining a gym where I could work with a trainer. Since I had literally just finished stretching and was putting on my shoes, I fear that perhaps I’m stretching incorrectly. And a trainer will work on stretching all my muscles, not just the ones that hurt. I’ll have to look at things to see how expensive this might be.