I had lots of back problems as I was a dancer until I had my operation. 1 fusion and 1 plastic disc that give a little movement. One interesting thing was that they put in synthetic bone of some description for the fusion, and within 6 months, it would all be replaced by growth bone and the synthetic would have disappeared! Yes, key hole if it's just a disc snip!

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I’ve had the same myself – also see if you can get Bowen Therapy over there. I tried this 3 years ago and I haven’t had a problem since (touch wood). I wish Lily a very speedy recovery. 

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Add swimming to your wife's list of options for a longterm solution. It is medically recognized as a very effective remedial method and it helped me combat lower back pain (brought on by muscle spasm, not a herniated disc) some years ago. A caveat: avoid breast stroke as it arches the back. Do the crawl or back stroke, instead. Incidentally, even walking lengths of the pool is beneficial.

Eoin Treacy's view

Thank you all for these informative emails. Lifestyle, diet and exercise all contribute to wellbeing and help restore the emotion reserve we require to participate in markets. I have made a conscious decision over the last couple of weeks to avoid trading because of the multiple tasks I am focusing on at home but as the situation calms down I look forward to exploiting developing opportunities not least as there a considerable number of oversold and overbought conditions evident in a large number of markets. I intend to spend most of next week identifying these charts and sharing them with subscribers. 

This article from Medtronic highlights their solutions for synthetic bone and there are a number of other companies both public and private pursuing this particular sector.

Surgical solutions account for over 30% of revenues at the company but disappointing earnings took a chunk out of the share price in November. Having trended higher in a consistent manner from 2011 the share experienced a large reaction during the August 2015 flash crash and has been less consistent subsequently. A short-term oversold condition is evident at present but a sustained move above the trend mean will be required to question medium-term supply dominance.