 Three months until it goes away. What's the best method? Well, that used to be bed rest. When I first started training many, many years ago, it was one week of bed rest with acute back pain. It's shortened to five days by the time I finished my training, then it was two, then it was one, now zero. We do not recommend bed rest only if the pain is excruciating. But as soon as it's tolerable, we recommend patients get up and at least walk around the house and do gentle stretching, get the tennis ball, heat nice packs. I know following my surgery, that's the first thing they wanted me out of that bed immediately. That is the best. Activity, the human organism has to move to heal. Mm-hmm.