Sorry to here about your back problems, I'm in the same boat guy though mine was a little more complicated. I was climbing up one of my stands last October and got a little light headed, thought it was just an old man trying to move a little to quickly up the tree. Turns out I was having a heart attack and fell about 20ft to the ground. As if that wasn't bad enough, I fractured 3 verts in my back and neck, broke my left shoulder and my right elbow. Getting old is hell and I'm still healing. Looks like my recurve days are done and mostlikely my hunting days also, since I don't think much of using a compound nor a crossbow. Besides at this point I'm not sure I'd be able to use any of those even if I wanted to make the switch!!! Hope all goes well for you, you seem like your young enough to bounce back from this, so for you it's just a matter of time and healing. If it wasn't for the rare time that I decided to hunt with someone (my grandson) I would of never made it out of the woods.