One day a sporty man came to my office. He has been training triathlon for years, he said. The man in his late 30s complained that he had had pain in the sacroiliac joint in the pelvis and in the right thigh for about nine months. He could not remember a trigger for the symptoms, and he also had no previous illnesses. Aside from the back and leg pain, he seemed completely healthy.

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