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The following is a list of all entries from the Case history category.
Case history: journal
Filed in Case history, May 4, 2009, 3:25 pmHerb, a New York journalist, was also a longdistance runner. From ages 28 to 34, he completed seven marathons; his only pain was from sore legs and a chafed toe. But during a vacation when he was 44, he ran one rigorous but short (1.7-mile) race in California’s Sierra Nevada.
Case history: adaptations for pregnancy
Filed in Case history, May 3, 2009, 3:07 pmMartha is a 33-year-old Georgia policewoman. She began to have lower back pain, radiating into the left thigh, five weeks into a pregnancy, and she knew of no reason for the symptoms. She had the pain while standing and sitting. She saw a doctor 18 weeks into the pregnancy and was told, correctly, that she [...]
Case history: hollywood barbara
Filed in Case history, May 1, 2009, 1:44 pmBarbara is a Hollywood entertainment executive specializing in the production of documentaries. She works long hours at her desk and also drives to many meetings, screenings, and other events. At age 52, after many years of the same habits, she developed lower back pain that sometimes was sharp. She adapted her chair at work by [...]
Case history: where flexion was the key
Filed in Case history, April 27, 2009, 11:05 amMark is a 41-year-old municipal judge in Oregon. For two months, he had intermittent pain in the lower back and buttocks. He knew of no reason for this. His pain was worse when he rose to stand and when he walked. He felt better lying on his back. Ibuprofen had brought him some relief.
His lumbar [...]
Case history: garden state
Filed in Case history, April 24, 2009, 10:53 amJuan is 64 and manages a plant nursery. He lives in New Jersey. Before beginning the McKenzie program, he had suffered from central lower back pain for three weeks. This appeared after a week during which an employee was out sick and Juan did a lot of stooping as he performed the tasks of the [...]
Case history: centralization in texas
Filed in Case history, April 20, 2009, 10:36 amWalt is from Texas. He is 54 years old and works as an insurance broker. For two months he had intermittent pain in the central and lower left back. This had come on for no apparent reason. It spread to his left buttock and thigh, and the symptoms were worse when he bent forward, sat, [...]
Case history: watch out for five-year-olds
Filed in Case history, April 19, 2009, 10:47 amRonnie, a Californian, plays lead guitar in a well-known rock band. He is 52. Due to an auto accident whiplash injury, he had a recurring neck condition that most of the time caused him no pain. Two physical therapists who had treated him had shown him the McKenzie exercises. One evening he was standing near [...]
Case history: numbness and tingling
Filed in Case history, April 18, 2009, 11:27 amRose, 76, from Florida, is a retiree whose physician had diagnosed her with lumbar radiculitis (inflammation of a lumbar nerve root). For two months, she’d had lower back pain as well as numbness and tingling in the right leg and foot. Her symptoms came and went but were most often provoked by sitting. Her pain [...]
Case history: getting a lift
Filed in Case history, April 14, 2009, 12:14 pmFlorence is a 58-year-old cleaning lady who works at a physician’s office and who also babysits her grandchildren. She lives in Florida. She had distressing lower back pain for two and a half weeks, and had experienced lower back pain off and on for five years. The new episode began when she bent over in [...]
Case history: nursing herself back to health
Filed in Case history, April 11, 2009, 10:35 amGreta, a 41-year-old nurse, works on a surgical floor at a hospital in Indiana. Her doctor diagnosed her with lumbar radiculitis, meaning she had inflammation of a lumbar nerve root. She had lower back pain as well as leg pain going all the way to her heel. Greta had these symptoms for six months and [...]
