Anita Srikameswaran Eight of 10 Americans experience back pain at some point in their lives.
New treatments help speed recovery.
Morphing into his alter ego of baseball coach, he threw hard pitches and swung a bat countless times. Those repetitive actions caught up with Chipman in May 1997. His lower back began an assault that nearly struck him out of the game. I remember a twinge in my back that just got worse and worse. Pain made it hard to fall asleep and woke him up when he turned over in bed.