Bikerbaby said:
obvisouly you've never dislodged vertabrae
I had a broken neck in 1974, for which I spent a long time in traction, then a surgical collar, and was treated with painkillers (probably Aspirin) I had no trouble since then until 1985 when I started with Spondolosis which caused severe pain in my neck and down my right shoulder, I suffered with this for a number of years being treated with Bruffen, and other pain killers, and back to wearing a surgical collar, none of this worked, I decided after 6 weeks off work that sitting at home was not doing me any good so I returned to work accepting that it was something that I would have to live with, on my return to work I discovered we had recently taken on board a new PE instructor who was also a qualified Physiotherapist, I had a word with him, he gave me some simple exercises to do and within weeks the problem had cleared up and I was pain free, I have only had slight twinges since. this is the reason I decided not to use pain killers, only in extreme circumstances.