Rob Plays on lumbago AKA lower back pain
Jan. 19th, 2020 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've been feeling my age lately, including some lower back pain from falling down in the snow a couple of weeks ago, so imagine my surprise when I saw this video pop up in my YouTube feed.
Without fail, every 20 minutes or so, John Progress insists that the clothes on the line are safe from rain because his lumbago isn’t acting up. Every 20 minutes, he is wrong. Without knowing what it was or how it acts up, or how either would have anything to do with the rain, I decided to find out. So let’s look at the history and quirks of lumbago.