franco12 wrote:

ItalianStallion wrote:It's NOT a disk issue.

I don't know we can rule this out. It may be muscular, but there may be some damage to the disc that no one yet knows about, but which is there.

Also - not sure if anyone mentioned this - but might he be playing up the back pain so he can kinda cover up the fact he doesn't want to go overseas to play?

They usually can tease that sort of thing out with history and I'm sure he's already had an MRI. Still odd for this to be lasting as long as it has.