I awoke this morning to back pain. I wrote in an email to a member of our family who is an emergency room/trauma physician that it feels like two tectonic plates of stone jockeying for position in my back with an overtone of toothache-style siren song pain. The seismic stuff can be talked into calming down with a twist or wiggle or repositioning my back. It is that ever-present siren pain that makes me the most uncomfortable. [Read more…]