Oh, my aching back!

Yeah, my back has been giving me some grief. For the last two months I have been waking up like the Tin Man and just generally feeling weak. Finally, Claire badgered me into seeing a physio. The assessment basically said that I have nothing overly wrong other than been old and tight. Awesome.

So, intervention one:

• McKenzie method (kiwi)
• Knees to chest and side-to-side
• Cobra
• Repeat every morning and several times per day

Intervention two:

• Mulligan method (another kiwi)
• Do something about the awesomely bad external rotation in my left hip
• The Mulligan method looks pretty cool and it seems like Kelly Starrett has put together a few ways to get a similar (although probably muted) effect without the intervention of somebody else. See:

Intervention three:

• O'Sullivan method (yet another kiwi)
• Do something about some of my screwy movement patterns

That is all.