Help...Vegas depends on you

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Saturday my wife was putting our 2 year old down and twisted just the wrong way and hurt her back. She managed to get in to see a chiro who told her she’s pretty sure she slipped a disk. Well I get my wife home and on the couch and she starts crying and saying she has something she needs to tell me. For some reason I laugh which makes her cry more (yes, I know I’m a bad husband for laughing). Finally she gets to the point of telling me the reason she’s crying is because she has booked a secret birthday trip for us to Las Vegas and we leave on Tuesday.

Since then I have been in full get-her-able-to-travel mode. Been doing ice on off every 30 minutes as well as taking ibuprofen. Pretty sure that the main cause of her pain at this point is inflammation. I’m pretty sure when I can take her in to get checked out she’ll get a Rx for some sort of muscle relaxer.

Here is where I come before the wisdom of ST for help: what would you recommend for home remedies, exercises, etc to help her be able to travel and hopefully function in 24 hours?

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if vegas depends on it then i’m chiming in lol

usually when i do this with my back, its because the muscles are so tight back there since they stiffen up to try to protect itself from more harm (what the doc told me). so what i do is try to loosen the muscle by stretching (downward dog) only if she can get there, or just be on all fours, massage helps but becareful of what the masseuse does, and the one thing that helps me is get acupuncture. the latter really loosens the muscle for me. if i dont do any of this and let it heal by itself, it could take 2-3 weeks. if i do all these, it takes 1 week and i can start jogging again.

good luck and good wife… vegas. nice.

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good luck and good wife… vegas. nice.

Thanks for the advice. She is super awesome. Even said I can go without her but I feel like it would be wrong so either we go now or pay some transfer fees and try to go in a few weeks.