For a long time, Jared Platt tried to tough it out. That’s one of the things you learn as a wrestler and as a fighter, and Platt liked to think he’d learned that lesson well over his years as a decorated grappler and training partner to some of MMA’s finest. So when the lower back pain that had plagued him for most of his amateur wrestling career left Platt, 26, stretched out on the couch for weeks, unable to stand up straight or sleep through the night, he told himself that he just needed to suck it up. “I was just living on the couch, and for weeks,” Platt told MMAjunkie. “My wife was like, ‘Do you hate me?’ Finally, one night I was laying there moaning and she said, ‘We’re going to the hospital
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