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How I defeated my sciatica

Sciatica is TOUGH! No joke about it. If you have been there, you know but if you haven't, you really don't know. But don't let yourself ever get there! Seriously, take precautions and take care of your spine!! WATCH YOUR POSTURE! Every day. While you are walking, while you are standing in line, while you are jumping! Tighten that core and take care of your spine! I was talking to a friend just last week about his sciatica and it hit me, a lot of people are dealing with this problem right now! WHY!? First off, let's take a look at how we live our daily lives.  Sitting in our car that has no back support for hours at a time, sitting in a desk chair with no back support ALL DAY and then coming home and sitting on our couch with NO BACK SUPPORT EITHER.. this is becoming a problem and we need to face it, now! We need to help each other to change our life styles around to live a long and healthy life. With this all being said I want to get it out there HOW I DEFE...

Does age really matter?

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I am 27 years old . I've had to keep telling myself that so I don't forget. I really have never been good at keeping track of age. Why does it matter so much anyways? Someone recently told me that it doesn't matter how old you are but how old your spine is and I guess my spine is twice my age.  Life has been pretty tough on me these past couple months. I had no idea what was wrong with me but I knew I was in a bad place. My spine . My spine has been slowly degenerating for the past 7 years and I had absolutely no clue, until this last month that is. But let's not get ahead of the story. About 3 months ago I started experiencing extreme back pain with a tingling feeling down my legs and then my toes would go numb . Scary, right? That's when I decided it was time to do something about it. When your nerves start getting affected by your pain, you know it's not good. This was hard for me. I've always been a fighter, someone who can bare pain a...