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Has your wife visited a doctor? I did - with great difficulty and discomfort - and they offered three disparate treatments. None of them sound fun but all are pretty doable.
Good luck to your wife. Manageable or not, the situation sucks.
Basically she has many issues and we are sorta constantly deciding which to deal with. This one is actually one of her oldest and she has done multiple things. The nuback trio is the device she uses. Seems god aweful to me but she swears by it. She could use it on the floor before but now uses the bed (we use a sleep number and she puts it up to maximum firmness. would recommend as its the only bed you can modify day to day depending how you feel. get the cheapest version though and modify with toppers and such of your choice). She goes to the pain clinic when nothing else works and takes over the counters. She is worried about surgery because of what she sees with outcomes. Being so familiar with back problems and medical things is kinda funny. When this commercial for university of chicago super back specialty center or whatever came out I pointed it out to her as you can see they try to minimize showing it but the guy can't turn his head at all. When you see him in the hallway talking to doctors you can see how he kinda turns his whole torso from the waist (its an upper back procedure). She has a lot of other things to sorta handle and no one works holistically nowadays in us medicine even though they will throw out the term. one thing at a time.
That sounds like no fun. I hope things improve for her.
Unfortunately and Im not sure how much your realize this. Its mostly about not getting worse and basic remediation of pain and such. Baring miracle medicine advances its just an area that is limited. Hope your things go as well as they can.