Lower Back, both at the same time during the last four or five days. Took acetaminophen, but didn't cut the pain much. I'm sure it had its genesis in some heavy gardening/digging, and moving concrete step stones around---maybe a little overdoing for a 77 year old youngster!

Although I've never found acupuncture useful in the past, except to clean out my wallet. But considering my extreme pain,I even considered going to a neighborhood acupuncture clinic, which has a "sliding scale" cost, based on your income I guess. But I never got there.

I haven't used the protocol in several years and after much searching I finally located my go-to pain relief book "The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook" and after doing self massage on certain areas for maybe 60 seconds several times a day, I awoke this morning with both pains totally gone. For awhile I didn't expect it to work, but it did. Since I had excellent results in the past, I don't know why I thought THIS time will be different, but I was wrong.

Anyway back to normal, and I think even better.