hi robert
sorry to hear of your trobles, i know your pain as i had to give up golf for almost 2 years with compression of L2,L3 and L4 disc and had curveture of the spine too, i had a lot of physio and acupuncture and was suprised the acupuncture did seem to help with the pain a lot. took almost 14 months before i felt i was able to sing a club again and only hit half shots for a few months to get me turning again. i feel great now but still do streaches every morning to help with the disc's.
i think it could take a while so you have to understand not to go back to swinnging to quick as you could start it off again, i thought i would never play again and gave up my membership and so far only played about 15 full rounds of golf this year but at least i'm back playing, i think in long term you should be back playing but with the back it does seem to talk forever, sorry.
hope things do start to get better.
best of luck.
bill