Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 46

2d ST. PETERS3URG TIMES WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1883 Pain in the back should never be treated lightly horseback riding. So I donl care to believe your pain is psychosomatic all in the mind, as the expression goes. And I want you to atop horseback riding. It's not a good activity for you while you have the pain.

You have to find the cause of your pain. If it turns out to be simple muscle spasm, than you can use heat and simple nilg if to relieve the pain. And there are specific exercises that can help relieve the general problem. If you have a disc disturbance, then you certainly have to put the back at rest And did you know that some cancers can be spread to the hack from places like the lungs, breasts, thyroid gland, rectum and, in men, from the prostate gland? AUC 0. POWOMUt.

P. QUESTION: My problem ii a sore back. I am 53, have tii children the youngest 19. My husband and I art now alone, in our mid-life crisis. Ws art doing bettor.

There have been lots of stresses and we are dealing with things better now. My back seems very tense, like rubber bands. My husband got interested in horses recently, so I've been trying to ride them. The jarring has not been too good for tion that because back pain is one of man's most common medical complaints that it is always an insignificant one to he dismissed wtt ftf hand Park pain tt 'wwn because the back itself is such a compUi anatomical area. And it's not easily analysed without seeing the person face-to-hack, if I may use that term.

Muscles, ligaments, bones and nerves all can be sources of low hack pain, and treatment for each cause is different Muscles can tighten in response to irritation, for example, or from trauma, as from he jolting in, my spine. The main question is, is my back pain and discomfort psychosomatic or could some damage have been done from riding? 8.8. ANSWER: I want, first of all, to discourage the no ENJOY SPECIAL TUiESAT THE 101 34th Street So. St. Petersburg I Tormo from 327-1423 1-0 tt Swmwy ttov Thuradt JJsJftolfNf frtftt JtM te JJ Fat ''-h'j Srts4tolJlf An OQFcubioiwd Stf NICHOLSON 18 a delightful show-boat of a supporting player.

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The path weaves through a short, low Florida jungle of palm, oak and pine, populated by exotic spiders and the beetles and dragonflies which make a web's best prey. The path opens onto the wide expanse of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Park, on the shore of Orange Lake behind her house. This is one park that comes alive as the sun goes down. The meeting point of land and water, the pressure points of night and day the changing of the cosmos all occur marvelously here. There is no one around.

The parking lot is littered with pickups and empty boat trailers. But, one by one, the bass fishermen glide in, heading home from their "honey holes." When all have arrived, when the sun is but a sliver of red light, the frog fishermen appear. Long fork-end poles, head-lamps and tall, enormously loud air boats are the tools of their craft With bursts of enormous power, they roar offshore, to search for frogs until morning. All at once the songbirds are quiet A lone mockingbird, perched atop the tallest dead tree, whistles one last evensong above the landscape. Then, from within the ambient solitude of wind and water and waving trees, another symphony begins.

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Another clicks and clacks. What is that? The occasional low grumble of the largest bullfrogs add exotic counterpoint from their Jabba the Hutt thrones edging the first shallow lagoons. Back on shore, the ground birds, dove and quail, scurry about the grassy fields for a few mad minutes, nipping at new insects just born at that critical hour when the night creatures emerge and the day creatures go away. Don't walk back through the woods. The spiders have already begun rebuilding sticky webs across the path from her house.

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