腰痛

年末から続いていた忙しさに一段落つき、心身の緊張が解けた頃からでしょうか。じわじわと腰が痛くなり、左の腰に三寸釘を打たれたような激痛が何日も続きました。海外出張から戻られたばかりの先生にオステオパシー治療を施術していただいたところ、昨夜からやっと寝返りを打てるようになりました。先生曰く、内臓の癒着が仙骨*を引っ張っている、と。そのように聞くと、痛いのは左側なのに問題は右側にあるということも、少し分かるような気がします。 

*仙骨とは脊椎の下のほうにある逆三角形の骨の部分です。

Back Pain 

It may have started when my job was slowed down and I was released both physically and mentally for the first time since December of last year. My back begun to ache gradually and the pain became so severe, as if there was a 4-inch nail in my left side for a few days. An osteopath, who just came back from an overseas business trip, provided me with a treatment and I could finally roll over in my sleep last night. According to the osteopath, the adhesion of my internal organs is pulling my sacrum*. That explains to me, to some extent, how my left back aches while there is a problem on my right side. 

*The sacrum is a triangular shaped part of the spine close to the bottom.