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Frank is a 68-year-old retired auto worker. He is being referred to this office from his primary care doctor. Frank reports a 20-year history of intermittent lower back pain that got much worse and more constant 2 years ago. He says that 2 years ago, for no apparent reason, he started having worsening lower back and buttock pain that was worse on the right than the left. The pain was mostly dull and aching and was worse when he would go for a walk. A year ago, it got to the point where he was having trouble walking his dog more than a block. At that time, he went to his primary care doctor who sent him to physical therapy.
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Cooper, G. (2015). Clinical Case #6: Frank. In: Non-Operative Treatment of the Lumbar Spine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21443-6_24
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