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James is an 84-year-old retired ironworker. He is referred by his primary care provider. James has a 10-year history of intermittent lower back pain that he says sometimes refers into the bilateral buttocks. The pain has been slowly getting worse in the last 2 years and finally he told his primary care doctor about it because the pain has been preventing him from going for walks, which is something he loves to do. He can walk about a block before the pain starts to get bad, and at a block and a half, James feels that he has to sit down because of the pain. The pain is much worse with standing and often he has no pain with sitting.
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Cooper, G. (2015). Clinical Case #1: James. In: Non-Operative Treatment of the Lumbar Spine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21443-6_19
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