Reader Stories: How Did Keep Your Relationships Going While Healing a Back or Neck Injury?

It's not only painful to have a neck or back injury, but it's disruptive to your life as well. Has your injury prevented you from participating in regular activities with friends or family? If it has, tell us how you manage your social life.

Have you found other ways to spend time with people so that your relationships keep growing? How do you communicate to them that you are unable to go at your previous pace? What ways have you found together to modify your social life so that you can keep up and participate? (Note: Submissions that go into detail about specific treatments will not be published.)