My first day back in Melbourne I get to see three people about my lousy back:

(1) Dr. G, osteopath. Twists me and turns me until I pop at L3-L4. This centralizes my pain, "which is a good thing". The pain is now lower down and more centralized in my tailbone than high in the right SIJ. I can also almost touch my toes again. He asks me to come back on Wed to move L5-S1! "But this is fused!" I say. "Yes, the vetebrae are fused but the right facet joint isn't. It's your call, but I want to try and move that." Hmm. Anyway, some progress.

(2) Massage man - gets to work on my stiff left shoulder. Immediately finds the sore spot and concentrates on freeing up the muscle around it.

(3) Physio - works higher on the neck and gives me some more exercises to do with a stronger Thera-band (blue) than I was given in HK. I have to do 2 x 4 x 15 repetitions religiously to strengthen my rotator cuff which will take the load off my stiff shoulder muscle and allow it to return to its normal state. There is no permanent injury, so if I do the right things I should be back to normal in that department.