Thanks Carl for sharing your experience with us with regard to back problems.

I must say that I had done some spine manipulation and traction therapy in the past; but it didn't cure me.
On the contrary it made everyting worse. So bad luck and I will never ever try that again .

Forward flextion exercise which you mentioned, seems logical, combined with back strengthening. But you are 60 and I 'm 72.

Those twelve years make all the difference!