Browsing the news phenomenon that is the Times Online—and I plan to review it more thoroughly at some stage—I came across an article dealing with a problem very near to me. Indeed, I am a chronic back-pain sufferer, and Magnus Linklater seems to have quite a lot to say. I’ve quoted a bit of the article below, and added a trackback to the page for you to read the rest of his fairly lengthy tale.

Quoted from http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/magnus\_linklater/article2532404.ece:

Confessions of a chronically sceptical back sufferer | Magnus Linklater - Times Online

Confessions of a chronically sceptical back sufferer

Our correspondent raises himself slowly into a sitting position to write …

Magnus Linklater

There are two ways of dealing with the agony of a bad back. The first is to invite a largish bone-cruncher, otherwise known as an osteopath, to arrange your limbs into a pattern of exquisite vulnerability, and wait until he drops the full weight of his body on to your spine. There will then be a palpable crack as two of your lumbar vertebrae are driven into realignment; a few days later you are back on your feet; the only drawback is that if he gets it wrong, you may never walk again.