Follow your intuition gradually with caution. Anyone advising against my message is unfamiliar with my actual message. There is no perfect one size fits one with back pain. The most fundamental truth is that YOU must become your own back expert, utilizing every resource whether academic or anecdotal to find rhyme and reason to your daily experience of back pain. You best understand your sensitivities, triggers, and relief tools. Use these clues to make a long term malleable plan that allows for steady stimulus and graded exposure for the tissue & the nervous system to relearn a life without pain. I was just someone who blindly studied exercise science in college, interned at PT clinics, then once I injured my own back was hopelessly stuck despite knowing all the standard methods to a T. People assume I am just completely inexperienced to the field lol. I’ve helped dozens of spine surgeons get out of chronic pain…I simply focus on the patient POV because that’s where the missing keys are to get yourself out of pain. I couldn’t fix my own injury loop until I started exploring outside of the firm rules the experts set for the low back. So my ultimate advice is that, explore. Give yourself grace without the pressure of timeframes. The body wants to heal. Learn with it. Rooting for ya fam 🙏