an experience beyond limits... pain and pleasure, indivisible
The guy took one look at my back and explained exactly how I sit at work. Each muscle he tried to rip off from its insertion point he'd name and indicated where it used to go (in case I ever wanted to try to push it back). One minute I'd be wincing from the pain (and I have a very high pain threshold) and the next instant I was almost falling asleep. Each time he'd work on a spot, he'd tell me what he was doing, why, and to "suck it up, Nancy-boy" before digging his elbow into my sternum from the back side.
The best part is that I can move my neck now. Still some residual pain, but nowhere near as bad as it was earlier today. He gave me some good exercises to do to stretch out and avoid that area again. I'm going to be scheduling a few more of those in the near future as my back seems to always be in dire need of 'de-knotting' at one random point or another.