Acupuncture

I really don't care to argue with you. I doubt you'd find a more cynical, logical and ruthless person on here when it comes to applying science to life. But having experienced back pain, and having exhausted the answers science proposed... acupuncture worked.

You're going to get a fierce response to what you are posting though.

By responding to my response with the "it's a placebo" line, you must clearly hold the view that the pain that I experienced was not real. In fact you're implying that it was invented, that it was in the mind, that I had no physical manifestation of the injury and that there was no physical pain... in effect, I feel that your line is that I am effectively lying about the pain I experienced. Could that be more offensive to me?

Wow !

A very out of character response !

I thought Tommy's post was not unreasonable, he did not say your back pain was invented, he even made room by saying 'It could well be true is some special cases, your specific back problem might be one".