Erick: Beating Pain, Losing Weight, and Chasing Mysteries
For Erick, a 60-year-old printing press operator from North Central Indiana, physical labor was a way of life. Having operated heavy printing machinery since 1985, standing for 12-hour shifts and lifting heavy stacks of paper was part of his everyday routine. However, around 2001, chronic lower back pain began to creep in. By age 50, a chiropractor delivered a sobering