I had fusion back surgery 5 years ago - no problems until last year bending over something poped in my right side -  have had chronic back pain since.  I have had 9 sets of injections in my back and just had 6 weeks of Graston, slowburn excerise and dry needleing - the Graston, etc. has helped with the pain some but still have the deep sore pain in the middle of my lower back - any suggestions.
Hello sir You have a valid question to which I want to answer with a simple illustration our spine is like a snake it is flexible and can bend to a great extent. What spinal fusion surgery does is it makes two units into one, so they ease the pain, but what it also does it make the back stiff, so now the load on the adjacent vertebra is more on bending. The Chat Doctor.  Earlier in the spine were 33 units each unit contributing to the flexibility now after fusion surgery at one level renders two vertebrae into one unit, so now only 32 vertebrae can bend. It also increases the load on the vertebrae level one above and one below the fused vertebra.  So in long run they also we'd start paining, which has started now with what u need to do now is taken care of your back, avoid straining it. Take your doctors opinion and get a MRI done to see the status of disc prolapse on adjacent vertebra and get treated appropriately