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I used to get a back issue every time I shoveled snow. During one of my chiropractor visits to treat the problem, he recommended a back brace/belt - which he just happened to sell. I tried it and it does minimize the issue quite a bit. The other way to minimize back issues while shoveling is to avoid twisting. Pushing straight ahead is best. This is the type of back brace I've used for over a decade: https://www.coreproducts.com/products/corfit-back-support-belt Make sure to get one with the stiff support ribs in the back. BTW - regarding chiropractors - I have recommended my chiropractor to a lot of friends and coworkers. Two coworkers with serious back and hip issues were very skeptical. I told them to just try him for 3 visits. Both of them finally took my advice and gave him a try. After those 3 sessions, they were both back to normal. They thanked me over and over again for the recommendation and I'm sure they are still patients of Dr. Stephen Shields at Hampstead Chiropractic in NH. The important thing about Dr Shields is that he takes X-rays before doing anything, which is important. If your back issues are disc-related, like a herniated disc, and someone starts adjusting your spine, they could do some serious damage. I knew a guy who almost got crippled from that.

I just read the entire FB discussion linked above, and - apart from the fact that, for a FB page, this is some serious and enlightened discussion - he may indeed be making too much of this particular passage if this was the only sore spot. But was it?? I don't know so I'd not judge that book myself. In general, though, I'd find such nonsense almost as grating as Allen did. Why do these authors have to resort to such clichés? And why can't they link the elements of their reasoning more properly so the reader isnt left wondering what the author actually meant to say? Do they really expect that their bluff won't be called by some readers if it can be called that easily? (In fact they ought to be glad that readers out there read their elaborations that attentively, instead of just glossing over them ... ) I guess I've been overly critical with some books I've read and commented upon here on that forum too. But one basic premise just is and remains: Get your facts right!

“The Columbia & RCA Victor Live Recordings of Louis Armstrong & The All-Stars” Mosaic Records 9 cd set. Continuing to move backwards in this set so to speak (last three, then middle three and now the first three discs). Now Disc 1–the amazing birth of the All-Stars live, the Town Hall Concert.

Allen posted something about the book on FB. Frankly, I’m thinking he makes too much of this particular passage. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0vn8juNCWeExLk1gVYiHCzPdLnRDGYzcy13qVXDZofy9ME81G7Szy1snR6pGtddE7l&id=100000637954817

Chiropractors is not something I’ve ever believed in. Unfortunately, I made it worse by doing some shoveling in February. Do a lot of stretching daily.

Back problems are the worst. I get a twinge every now & then. I have a chiropractor that does wonders when it gets really bad. A good chiropractor can do wonders. A bad one can make it worse.

Have never felt old in my head. Unfortunately, my back ain’t cooperating right now so until I get moving in the morning, that drags me down.

I'm 70 and. over the last few years I've started to feel old. . . in my head. . . all over, and having a few issues at last. But I shouldn't complain.

I'm the same age and like you, I don't "feel" old... in my head. I was lucky to be able to retire at 61. The company where I spent the last 21 years of my career, Analog Devices, "made me an offer I couldn't refuse" so I took it.

Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Vol. 14” disc 3. This is the final US concert before they shipped off for that Eupropean tour in 1972.

Nice to see you here. Enjoy the musical B-Day.

Forty-two and a half here, been checking in here since I was 20, and hope to keep doing so for many years to come. I don't feel any different than I did back then, except it's easier for me to pull a back muscle than it used to be. I echo the earlier sentiments about the world today, and I am glad I grew up when I did.

We need more info on this Amarone. I have two bottles of Bertani Amarone in my cellar (2012 & 2013). I used to have several bottles of Masi Amarone down there but it has been a while since I bought more of that one.

Not rock per se, although he does rock out nicely on a couple tracks 😎

64, still working (primarily to fund music addiction). Exercise pretty hard daily, better shape now than I was at 40. As noted above, the body does not always cooperate and some things just deteriorate. One amazing fun fact - I have spent over 1/3 of my life on this forum. I love seeing familiar names, old and new. Even met some of you in person!

My Dad got like this when he hit 70. He was very depressed to find himself "three score and ten". Well he's four score and three now and seems to have never been happier. More of a social life than I have (42) and definitely a hipper crowd.

Lucrecia Dalt "A Danger To Ourselves" -Saw her at Big Ears. Very low key. Not sure why she chose that album cover.

Definitely an "older" crowd here. Not surprising since this form of social media is pretty much dead, but glad we're still hanging on here. I'm 73, retired and in relatively good health (knock on wood). There's always aches and pains and I don't have the vision and hearing I once had - now wear glasses most of the time and have been wearing hearing aids for 3 years (most certainly the result of hundreds of rock concerts over the decades). I still go to see a lot of live music - both jazz and rock (mostly out-of-the-mainstream stuff, which means I go alone). And have been attending the Big Ears festival since 2018 (where I met Nessa👍), which requires a lot of stamina, but me and my same-age friends are still able to handle the long days/nights and constant hustle up and down the streets of Knoxville. My wife and I are the same age and most of my friends are in the same general age group. We like to travel when possible, but it's getting more and more expensive. I must say, turning 70 was kind of an eye-opener, and I still think about it a lot. I don't "feel" 70 (whatever that means) but the existential thought being in my last 1/3 of life is heavy, for sure. I still haven't completely come to grips with it. Nice to hear everyone else's experiences.