When I saw the patient for the first time, I knew immediately: This tall, strong man was undoubtedly suffering from severe pain, otherwise he would never have seen a doctor. The early 50-year-old immediately reported to me that it all started a week earlier: when he wanted to herd an animal from his geese farm into the stall. He vividly described to me how he had stomped his rubber boots on the ground with his legs apart in order to steer the renegade goose in the right direction.

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