Pulled Muscle

When I was playing junior varsity basketball, I pulled a muscle in my lower back.  I was really hurting!  This was in '86 or so.  Anyway, one day my mother answered the doorbell on Solomon Rd, and there was Uncle Bumps Vann.  He had brought over a brown electric back massager with a heating element (similar to 1976 model above).  He was very nice and said keep it for as long as I needed.  I did get better!  Later on I learned from Uncle Bumps' sons that their dad suffered from chronic back pain ("down in the back") that only got better after surgery in the 70s.