My brother had exactly the opposite experience with a water bed. It led to all kinds of problems for him. I asked my own chiropractor about it, and he told me that the two best things that have ever happened for chiropracty were water beds and plastic shopping bags. He said especially that plastic shopping bags have brought him tons of income. When people used paper grocery bags, they carried them close to the chest with the arms wrapped around them, and could only carry so much that way. Now, people carry way too much weight in plastic bags held down at their sides and pulling on their shoulders.

>>Yeah! like I'm made of money! I don't think my medical insurance would have stretched that far. Maybe your kranklecasse does.
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>No, but I try to keep myself free from unnecessary pain. Water beds are not that expensive, and when I took a flat in another city last year for longer gig I got one on ebay for about 300 EUR not far from the autobahn I drove every week. On the hotel: on weekends you get rates about 3/5 of the usual rate during the week, and adding another person to the room will increase it less than a breakfast in a nice cafe would cost you. Maybe different in the UK... The waterbed I bought when I needed a new bed anyhow amd never regretted it. But I had experienced it before and knew what I had to expect. Back then I was heavy into sports and sometimes overextended myself - and was heaven-sent after car crash.
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>>While we're at it, my recommendation for aching shoulders or neck is 2 tennis balls in a tied up sock. I swear by it. You lie down with the ensemble beneath the affected area and sort of wriggle about and give yourself a sort of shiatzu massage. Works for aching neck, shoulders, sacrum. I once even "thawed out" my frozen shoulder joint by doing such under the occipital protruberance (if you have one - I have), just behind the mastoid processes.
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>I do believe you - for similar effect I let people walk barefoot over my back (no, they are not always asian girls, but that is where I got the idea). At least my back still has more muscles than fat, and there must be quite a bit of pressure to smooth out cramped tissue.
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>regards
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>thomas