“Once while on tour with the Sex Pistols in Finland I had to break off and go and see an osteopath as I was really struggling,” he recalls. When they didn’t work he visited several osteopaths, a back pain clinic and top Harley Street specialists. He initially tried gentle stretching exercises and muscle-relaxing tablets prescribed by his doctor.
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“Back then when the pain came on it was normally an excuse to have another port and brandy – medicinal of course,” he smiles.īut as the pain worsened over the years, Glen sought professional help. With a busy recording and touring schedule, rather than seek medical advice, he shrugged it off. Glen, 63, who began his music career as a teenager, first experienced back pain when he was in his mid-twenties. And I wear a surgical support belt underneath my shirt.” Before I go on stage I take ibuprofen and rub Voltarol on to my lower back to help ease the pain and inflammation. But if I’m performing I just battle through. It’s not just the back pain, all the opposing muscles go into spasm to compensate. “I’ve had times where I’ve had to walk with a stick. I lay there for a couple of hours, but eventually I couldn’t wait any longer and I was on my hands and knees walking like a dog – the pain was so bad. I went to bed and when I woke up I couldn’t move even though I needed the loo. “I remember once I’d been decorating my ensuite bathroom.
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