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Get started by reading our quick start series below to better understand and navigate your pain with wisdom. We also encourage you to watch our first episode of The Joint Pain Podcast that helps you make sense of your joint pain.
Quick start series:
Case Study — Four Years of Persistent, Nonsurgical Low Back Pain
- 9 min read · Four years of low back pain that a surgeon wouldn't operate on and physical therapy couldn't hold. A quarter-mile walk on the beach ended in a spasm; woodworking and yard work became a gamble. Here's how a step-by-step process took a 68-year-old to zero pain — and to a 200-lb deadlift
Case Study — Fourteen Years Of Recurring Low Back Pain
Fourteen years of low back pain and six brutal flares a year — every time forcing the same choice: play with his kids, or pay for it with days of pain. Imaging was clean and nothing had worked. Here's how a step-by-step process — restore, stabilize, then load — took him to zero and a 185-lb deadlift. (9 min read)
Case study — Three Years of Persistent Right-Sided Low Back Pain
Three years of right-sided low back pain. An average pain of 7 out of 10. Cortisone injections, physical therapy, chiropractic, a "normal" MRI — and still no answers. She felt she'd tried everything. Here's how a systematic process of exclusion — not another diagnosis — took her from a 7 to a 0, with no injections and no surgery.
(8 min read)