I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.
There was a disc and two bone spurs pressing on my spinal cord. If anyone's had spinal cord problems or disc injuries in their neck, they'd understand what I went through.
I had a couple of car accidents when I was in my early 20s, and I used to have such a bad back.
Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
I have a slight herniation above where I had surgery.
I was quite small; then I had a big growth spurt that led to a problem with my back, which stopped me playing for a while. My bones were growing too quick for my weight.
The biggest problem is my back.
My back is permanently messed up.
My back's not great, and I can't wrestle a full schedule.
I played with a herniated disk that I didn't find out was herniated until I tore my meniscus.
I play every day. I had a bad back, but they fixed it.
I don't know how well-known it is, but I had back surgery in '07, and it took about two years to recover.
Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.
My back isn't great.
I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.
I've got an L3 bulging disk and degenerating disk. It's bulging in two places. Yeah, it's not good.
