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Your MRI is a clue. Not a roadmap.
An 18-page guide for anyone with an L4/L5 or L5/S1 disc bulge. What your scan actually means, why your symptoms keep coming back, and how to rebuild a back you can bend, lift and train with again.
Written by Jeremy Wade and Josh Midghall. Both blew out their L5/S1. Both lost nearly two years to it. Both train and play sport again.
18 pages. PDF. Read it in about fifteen minutes.
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What is inside
- What L4/L5 and L5/S1 actually mean, in plain English
- What your MRI can tell you, and the four things it cannot
- The four patterns nearly everyone with recurring back pain falls into
- Why the flare-up loop keeps repeating, and where to break it
- The green, amber and red system for knowing if you have done too much
- What to do in the first days of a flare-up without resetting to zero
- Why the same exercise helps one person and flares another
- Five mistakes that quietly keep recovery stuck
- Six signs you are improving that have nothing to do with pain
- The BackForge Recovery Roadmap, and how it unfolds over 90 days
General education, not individual medical advice. This guide cannot diagnose you or replace an assessment from someone who has examined your back. New bladder or bowel changes, numbness around the groin or inner thighs, or new or worsening weakness in a leg need urgent medical assessment, not a PDF.