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Sonya

SI Buddy Sonja
SI Joint Degeneration

I was determined to fight the denial from my insurance company and wrote several emails about my “quality of life” to the CEO of my insurance carrier.

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Richard

SI Buddy Richard pic2
SI Joint Degeneration

There was no single event that triggered Richard’s SI joint pain, but he believes that his years of waterskiing contributed to his degenerative sacroiliitis.

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Janice

SI Buddy Janice
SI Joint Degeneration

Janice was bending over a laundry basket trying to untangle and remove clothes from an over-filled dryer when she began experiencing intense pain in her lower back and the right side of her buttocks.

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Terri

SI Buddy Terri
SI Joint Degeneration

I had been dealing with pain in my hands, feet, and hips for several years due to an autoimmune type arthritis.

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Trisha

SI Buddy Trisha
Pregnancy Related

My lower back pain never completely went away after my delivery. It would get better and get worse, but it never went away.

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Michele

SI Buddy Michele
SI Joint Trauma

She bent over to lift a cake and immediately felt a sharp pain on the left side of her low back between her buttock area and hip.

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Larry M

SI Buddy Larry M
Prior Lumbar Fusion

Larry didn’t recall a specific event that first triggered his SI joint pain but he believes that his previous lumbar fusion surgeries may have stressed his sacroiliac joint.

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Sherry

SI Buddy Sherry
SI Joint Trauma

Sherry was playing racquet ball and lunged to her left. She felt an immediate pain in her left groin and SI joint area.

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Judy R.

SI Buddy Judy
SI Joint Trauma

She remembers slipping on water and falling onto her buttocks several years ago. She immediately noticed pain in her left lower back.

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Phil

SI Buddy Phil
SI Joint Degeneration

Phil noticed an increase in this back pain. He began to have difficulty standing for long periods of time and sleeping.

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Kelly

SI Buddy Kelly
SI Joint Trauma

Kelly was rear-ended by a vehicle while stopped at a red light. She recalls experiencing a severe headache, neck strain, shoulder, back, hip and left leg pain.

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Todd

SI Buddy Todd
Prior Lumbar Fusion

Todd slipped and fell on black ice in front of his New York home. As a result, he broke his L3-4 lumbar vertebra in two places.

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