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Living with arthritis: Carson’s story

Published on: August 4, 2016
Last updated: October 12, 2021

Seventeen-year-old Carson comes from a close-knit family of athletes and had been playing baseball for a decade when consistent, unexplained pain left his family stumped and looking for answers. The next 18 months were filled with countless physical therapy and orthopedic appointments. When an MRI of his spine lead the radiologist to assume they were from a middle-aged person who’d played a lifetime of contact sports, rather than a 15-year-old boy, finally the family had a clue that Carson’s pain was not just an overuse injury.

Link: https://care.choc.org/living-arthritis-carsons-story/