Patient Education

A forty-year-old schoolteacher came to see me convinced she had a serious problem with her left leg. For the past three weeks, she had been waking up with a burning, shooting pain that started somewhere deep in her left buttock, ran down the back of her thigh, and by the time it reached her calf, […]

A retired engineer in his early sixties came to my clinic carrying two years of X-rays, one MRI, and a thick folder of reports he had accumulated from various consultations across the city. He had neck pain and some stiffness in his upper back. What he also had, after two years of being handed reports

A man in his late forties came to see me a few months ago. He had been having lower back pain on and off for about two years, always after long hours at his desk, always easing up over a weekend. He had never thought much of it. Then one morning he woke up with

Priya was 34, a software project manager in Bangalore, and she had been managing mild lower back pain for about three weeks. It was annoying but manageable, the kind of ache that eased up after a short walk and got worse after a long day at her desk. On a colleague’s advice, she decided to