A full-time Uber driver came into my office at 38.
He'd been driving 55 hours a week for three and a half years. His previous car was a Camry with 280,000 miles on the original seats. He was eating ibuprofen every four hours by 2 PM. His wife had started noticing he was irritable at dinner, couldn't play with the kids at the park, and had stopped going to the gym because his back couldn't handle it after a shift.
He wasn't there about his back. He was there for a routine knee consult — but the back came up because he couldn't find a position on my exam table that didn't hurt.
I've performed over 3,000 spinal procedures. I've been specializing in the injuries chronic sitting causes for a long time — herniated discs, sciatica, coccyx damage, and the post-surgical cases where drivers came back in pain because nobody ever addressed why their spine was deteriorating in the first place.
I knew exactly where he was on the curve.