“I don’t notice it in daily life, but after about 5 km of running, the inside of my right knee starts to hurt. Lately the pain comes at around 5 km, so I can’t run long distances any more. I have a race coming up, and I want to do something about it.” Ms Y,
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Mr K, a marathon runner in his 50s, runs 100–160 km a month. He first came to us on 28 September 2023 — and he had a full marathon scheduled for 5 November, just five weeks away. In his own words: “Running is my hobby; I have been running for 15 years, about 100–160 km
Ms B, an office worker in her 60s, developed tenosynovitis of the wrist (de Quervain’s disease) at the end of last year. She tried orthopedic care and various other treatments without improvement, and came to us three and a half months after it began. The patient In her own words: “From the end of last
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“Even sweeping and writing are hard, the numbness is so strong…” Ms Y, a Buddhist priest in her late 40s, had spent three and a half years in a training monastery — sweeping, clipping the garden, carrying heavy loads, every day. What began as a vague discomfort gradually became numbness through the palms of both
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Mr K, a man in his 40s who works in the restaurant business, had been diagnosed at a hospital with tennis elbow — pain on the outside of the elbow, where the muscles that straighten the fingers and wrist attach to the bone. The pain had been building for six months. Because his work uses
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Mr H, a man in his 40s, plays futsal once a week as a hobby. The day after playing, he always had tightness and pain in his buttock, with a tingling numbness as well. When it was bad, the pain and tightness reached into his thigh, and long sitting hurt too — perhaps from the
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“The pain started about two years ago. Recently it has got to the point where it’s not just training — it’s interfering with my work… Until now I kept going to a local seitai clinic and somehow getting by, but this time the pain felt different. I wanted to fix it from the root.” Mr
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