“Strolling the streets for a mental health walk during July 2020, I started experiencing excruciating pain in my legs. Barely able to move, I took myself to A&E, where an MRI scan revealed two of the lower discs in my back had disintegrated,” says Lynn Blades, 64.
“I thought back to the lower back pain I’d been experiencing a few years prior. My doctor had told me to have some physical therapy sessions, but I’d ignored him as life was too busy.
