My Visit To The Knoxville Orthopedic Clinic

I have chronic lower back pain that is typically associated with age which then in turn causes arthritis.  Cancer treatments can exacerbate this condition like it did with my thyroid; however, I have been experiencing lower back pain since 1990 or 30 years so it is highly unlikely that my cancer treatments impacted my current situation at all, or if it did, very little...  and, this will be one of the questions I ask when I meet with the doctor in 3 weeks.

And, while I did not ask him any direction causal questions, I am fairly confident that my problems are driven by old age and arthritis which is what a previous back doctor told me when my back hurt so back from bending over, I needed to go see a specialist who gave me a back brace.  About 10 years later, another bending over incident landed me in a specialist's office once again, who said, after looking at my X-rays that I had been rode hard and hung up wet.  It was this doctor who pointed to arthritis and said that I had huge bone spurs up and down my spinal column.  This doctor sent me to a physical therapist.