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Case history: numbness and tingling

Rose, 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: nursing herself back to health

Greta, 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 [...]