back pain Archives - Living with Scleroderma https://livingwithscleroderma.com/tag/back-pain/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:56:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 31053421 Aging Grace https://livingwithscleroderma.com/aging-grace/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/aging-grace/#respond Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:00:33 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=10980

I turned 72 on Saturday. It was a birthday when I felt my age more than I would have liked. A couple of weeks ago, I aggravated an old lower back injury, trying to do more than I should have. Thought it was resolving, just a bit sore. Then on Wednesday afternoon, after I got […]

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Last Thursday evening I went to a yoga class at a nice studio not too far from home. I’ve taken a fundamentals class there several times over the summer to try to improve strength and flexibility, with mixed success. But I had one more class left on my paid series, and I wanted to use […]

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Writing is one of those pursuits that you need to do sitting down. Of course you can stand or walk around as you dictate text, and I’m sure that as AI gets better, dictation will get easier and more accurate. But having tried dictation software several years ago when my hands were very damaged from […]

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