I'm 22 and have degenerative disc disease. My L5-S1 is completely blown out with a herniation and I'm about to go for a second surgery in a few weeks. I know that some people have it worse, but it's depressing to know that even a healthy and active person can still have this happen to them, and at such a young age.
MichaelRGB same here brother. I'm going to get checked out soon by my doctor to see what are my options. But I'm thinking about surgery. I hate not being able to keep a job and not being able to have a healthy and active lifestyle.
I feel yah man, 23 years old here, 6 years active duty army, medically discharged for billateral knee degenerative arthritis, and lumbar strain, 3 herniated discs
Thank you for making this video. It's been a year of physical therapy, and time off work because of back pain. They finally approved two MRI's. One initially, and two after it got considerably worse to where I could barely move my left leg... Going over the MRI with the doctor today, it has gone from a bulge to a significant extrusion, and I wanted to know what that meant for me leading up to surgery..
Evan - the MRI image is displayed from the bottom-up so the 'patient left' side is actually the 'right' side of the image. You don't see the annotations on his images but I can confirm that it is reversed from what you expect. My MRI shows a herniated L4/L5 with L5 compression and contact with L4, plus a congenital sacralisation of L5/S1. The nerve root irritation is bad enough (confirmed with EMG) that surgery seems like an option. I was successful at keeping the herniation under control for 18 years with exercise, which I think is quite a long time with effectively no L5/S1 disc.
currently on my 2nd round physical therapy. Injury from work. My 2nd doctor told me my L4 and L5 is twisted, but I still feel pain on my tail bone also. It's been 4months and I still feel pain. Even though he is helpful and helping me to crack my back and spin I still feel the same. I really hope that I will be able to know whats going on with my back through MRI soon
Looking at my example, I have a herniation that does not look so bad on MRI, but I have pain that I would not classify as pain, but more as teaser shocks. The nerve roots are slightly moving in the spinal canal/neural sac and can be positioned differently from person to person, I would guess. Therefore, my herniation is not giving me pain but shocks because I think it hits the nerves that are positioned more on the front of the spinal canal. Alternatively, the MRI doesn't show my herniation properly because I had the MRI when everything returned to normal. I experience these shocks every 1-2 months, and my last MRI was done just after I fully recovered from the last episode. When I have these shocks, I’m on strong medications, lying in bed for a week, and then I have a massive body shift three weeks later. All the muscles around my waist (on the left side of my body) are very stiff. After a week, I start a series of exercises and hang on the bar, and the condition goes away after another 3-5 weeks. When I was fully recovered, I had the MRI, so I guess it doesn't show the compressed neural sac. If the MRI was done during the episode when I have those shocks, it would probably show the compression and bigger herniation. Is that correct?
I have pain in my lower back pin..as well as in my back nape.which specialist doctor should i go..its been a year already since i started to experience pain..pain that usually lccirs inthe morning...
My husband has disc herniations of the L4 & L5. He also has bone spurs and arthritis as well. He has been on high dose steroids and opiate pain meds, and he still has a lot of pain. He is only 40 and his back problems are more than likely going to be a perm disability, since all he knows is construction type work, which requires a lot of bending and lifting.
This MRI looks just as mine, and doctors says you must go for surgery, but i dont have pain anymore that make me very uncomfortable , should i listen to doctors?
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery has become commonplace technique in spinal surgery. Excellent lecture and preentation of technical tips in MISS. I look forward for next videos. Regards.
Had this problem too got my scan and showed ruptured disc had surgery and took 1week off work pain gone instantly been over a year now no pain ps I'm a joiner with a very heavy job :)
Hi I also got back pain and it's been almost three years having this pain. So I would like to ask which hospital were you on and If it's a private hospital how much to do MRI scan
Thank you so much for explaining this..I have a bulging disc in my back and I am in so much pain and your tutorial helped me have a better understanding :)
@@nrvnrv3237 Surgery helped me recover ..I had a bulging disc several years ago I got steroid injections for a couple years I eventually had to have surgery..I just learned I have another one ..hope this helps you.
I have this condition. Disc herniation, left leg pains. Numbness, pins and needles, tight hamstring. Also major lower back pains. Left side of my back is full tensed up. I've been doing a lot of hydrotherapy and core activation exercises. Any more ideas to speed up recovery?
I had a MRI for lower back pain few weeks ago, and as from the first day the level of pain had doubled, initially I thought this might be normal but it is getting worst, what do you recommend?
Great video. The doctor that did my MRI didn't explain it very well. Now I'm sure it's a pinched nerve in my back and not my feet causing the pain in my feet.
Oddly enough, I used this video to explain the herniated disc in my little dog, who suddenly lost movement in her back legs. Very informative. Thank You.
I keep losing this last, very important part (technical difficulties). I will try later. I have 3 hours to get ready to take my daughter to an appt. Due to permanent disability from Adhesive Arachnoiditis, I never know from one day to the next if I can keep an appt. the "cancel 24 hrs in advance rule" doesn't apply to me. And it takes me 3 hours to get myself ready to go. Thank God the toddler is now an adolescent & can do everything for herself & a lot for me! Later.......
I would like to see the same MRI one year post-op &hear from this patient. Better than one, 50 patients with the same problem after surgery. I had the same diagnosis. A yr ear & after 3 ESI'S
I just found out that I have a herniated disc but what I want to know is what is it called when u have a nerve growing on the bone from a herniated disc that's what I also am suffering from
This scares me I have three lumbar slipped discs and they hurt so bad. Plus degenerative disc disease. I refuse to have the surgery BC I'm afraid it won't work. Thanks for the info.
I have thing as that only s1 has also ruptured and center of disk is now in spinal colom on nerve, 2 months in bed now its progressing, and i have losr feeling in left foot no longer flex foot towards body. That is a weird thing not to be able to move foot. I see my foot just can't make it move. Im 54. im surprised how many people have same thing
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LEFT leg pain. So the right side of the image is the left side of the body. So it's like taking shots with camera pointed at the head looking slice by slice through the spine. I'm LUCKY you mentioned the left leg pain.
Lasing in a hospital bed right now with a 10x10mm bulge at L5-S1 and this video made my stomach turn. That being said, seeing this both helps be better understand what's going on.
I cant wait for my MRI results...i want the pain to go away...i cant sleep and i cant do everyday things...and im only 19 ): seeing this makes my lower back hurt more...
@@brucerazor5202 i hope it goes well for you. let me know if you remember. i use a tens unit with the pads on my lower back and it helps sometimes. kinda "turns down the volume" on the pain a bit. implanting one sounds kinda scary.
Is it possible to have this for several years? I think I've had it for 20 years now. I have never had insurance, thus never an MRI. My pain is always but sometimes much more extreme and changes throughout the day. I only get relief by extreme S-bending my spine sideways with pillows or foam wedges. Not good for posture I know but nothing else works.
Hi. Great and helpful videos. I had a very basic question. When reading MRI images exactly like these, are the disc slices shot from underneath (ie. from the feet looking up the spine) or from above (ie. the head looking down the spine)? I'm trying to work out left and right. Obviously I'm not medically trained... but it seems to me that the shots are in reverse ... What way is the standard way round the images are printed? Thanks.
Dr. Corenman personally answers all questions posted in his forum AskSpineDoc (dot) com. Please move this there if you would like to ask Dr. Corenman for more information on your husband's situation. Thanks!
I got an MRI because I started with sciatica pain from lower spine to right leg all way down to my foot. The top of my foot was numb to the touch than couple weeks went by and suddenly my rectum and genitals were going numb if I stood up for a while and I couldn't use the bathroom or pee regularly so I got an MRI done see what happens or what it is.
From karnataka. Sir my problem is Lumber spondylosis Diffuse posterior disc bulge with small fissural tear at L4/L5 causing indentation of traversing nerve roots and Broad based posterocentral and bilateral paramedian disc herniation at L5/S1 causing moderate compression of traversing nerve roots more left side. Pls help me sir doctor told surgery but i don't like sir pls give me sugestions
I've had about 6 mri's They do show my lower dics is compressed and degenerated dics disease..why dosnt my mri show how my dics are more compressed when i have to sit up or stand because i know its more compressed my surgen tried to get me approved for a mri where im able to sit up no luck .one sugen rec that he would do a dics replacement .
just got my mri results today. not good. I have a small herniated disc and bulging disk on my L5-S1 region. also have mild disc degeneration in my whole lower back and more sever in L5- S1 area. I have been to 5 doctors one was a complete quack. my orthopedic dr is now sending me to a specialist to try to fix it . if not there doing surgery. he already told me that they can fix it but it will never be the same. been out of work 4 months gotten so bad can hardly walk
Thanatos i am walking back to normal again the discs are still pushed out. drs decided against surgery so i did other things that they asked me to and they didnt work. they said i would never work again and to apply for disability. disability told me i could work but it had to be a sitting job . I proved those drs wrong. im working now for a great company and its a sitting job.out of all the drs i saw only one told me to stay in bed and only walk when i could. it took two years just to get back to standing normal again. my back hurts all the time but i am so blessed to be able to walk again and stand up straight. my back will never be 100% again but 70% is better than nothing.
Karm A I was lifting too heavey up to 75 pounds for 7 days a week 9 to 12 hour shifts during christmas season. at this warehouse job i was working at. felt something pop on day off. went to work the next day and i felt it popped again and was very painful. whent to chiropractor who said it was a strain and a sprain plus my scolosis. he said he could fix it so i belieaved him. i was getting better but sent me back to work too soon and ended up hurting it even worse then the first time. went back to chiroproactor and he tried but my back was not responding to his work. went to several drs had mri and they said i pulled discs out in back. they talked of surgery first but decided against it. they told me to try differnt things like yoga, physicail thrapy water arobics ect. and they didnt work. i was told i would never work again and to apply for disability. disability told me to find a job sitting. one dr to told me finally to stay in bed and walk when i could and that helped. it took two years and am now stainding straight but my back still hurts every day and my dics are still pushed out but i am greatful every day that I am back on my feet. I proved the drs wrong. i now work at a great job and its a sitting job.
Do home McKenzie Method Physical Therapy, Decompression/traction, lots of walking, and sitting as little as possible. This is the way to go to increase chances of healing. Learn and understand what is happening with the disc when you sit or load it with weight. If you understand this you will know what home treatments work and what is keeping your disc from healing. Then alter your lifestyle to prevent discs from coming out. And pray.
Good luck with Disability. I've had several back surgeries and compression fractures of the of the spine could not work . No luck with disability. How did it work for your husband?
Thank you for this video. I can reference this while I look at my lumbar mri scan. Seems like my disc isnt as herniated as the one in the video, just a bulge :) its compressing on my nerve which makes sense because i have radiating pain down the left leg.
Then maybe its time to get something done. I could only deal with the pain of m L5 out 40% of the way for 6 months. I feel for your husband :( Time to see a surgeon you trust, who's got the experience. Some people are terrified of back surgery, what's worse?
Con't.. A yr earlier, I had a series of 3 Epidural Steroid Injections which relieved the pain temporarily. My first surgery was a discectomy, I recovered in 6 wks & the pain was better for 6 mos. I picked up my startled 3 yr old & a familiar pain shot down my leg. I was 2000 miles from home to be near my sister with terminal kidney cancer. She died 3 days after the shooting pain started again. I stayed 2 wks longer, changing plane reservations several times due to severe pain. Con't.
Once your disc is pushing on the nerve you need surgery Nothing helped me physio therapy did nothing only worsen it got my hips all out of aliment If they cut of more tissue then I have more time to save cash for a disc replacement at private clinic one made of silicon or something would not do a wedge fuse other wise will be in the same boat 3 years from now
I'm 22 and have degenerative disc disease. My L5-S1 is completely blown out with a herniation and I'm about to go for a second surgery in a few weeks. I know that some people have it worse, but it's depressing to know that even a healthy and active person can still have this happen to them, and at such a young age.
MichaelRGB same here brother. I'm going to get checked out soon by my doctor to see what are my options. But I'm thinking about surgery. I hate not being able to keep a job and not being able to have a healthy and active lifestyle.
What about your operations result?
Are you oky???
Any others problems you facing?
I feel yah man, 23 years old here, 6 years active duty army, medically discharged for billateral knee degenerative arthritis, and lumbar strain, 3 herniated discs
How are you now?
@@captainofthewhitetower Im doing better, thank you. I'm more mobile and can do more than I thought I would have ever been able to.
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Just got an MRI yesterday on my lower back. Hoping for the best!
Thank you for making this video. It's been a year of physical therapy, and time off work because of back pain. They finally approved two MRI's. One initially, and two after it got considerably worse to where I could barely move my left leg... Going over the MRI with the doctor today, it has gone from a bulge to a significant extrusion, and I wanted to know what that meant for me leading up to surgery..
Evan - the MRI image is displayed from the bottom-up so the 'patient left' side is actually the 'right' side of the image. You don't see the annotations on his images but I can confirm that it is reversed from what you expect. My MRI shows a herniated L4/L5 with L5 compression and contact with L4, plus a congenital sacralisation of L5/S1. The nerve root irritation is bad enough (confirmed with EMG) that surgery seems like an option. I was successful at keeping the herniation under control for 18 years with exercise, which I think is quite a long time with effectively no L5/S1 disc.
I have a much better understanding of what I'm looking at when I review my MRI results because of this video. Thank you very much.
hi
just that short video was an eye opener.
currently on my 2nd round physical therapy. Injury from work. My 2nd doctor told me my L4 and L5 is twisted, but I still feel pain on my tail bone also. It's been 4months and I still feel pain. Even though he is helpful and helping me to crack my back and spin I still feel the same. I really hope that I will be able to know whats going on with my back through MRI soon
How are you now?
Looking at my example, I have a herniation that does not look so bad on MRI, but I have pain that I would not classify as pain, but more as teaser shocks. The nerve roots are slightly moving in the spinal canal/neural sac and can be positioned differently from person to person, I would guess. Therefore, my herniation is not giving me pain but shocks because I think it hits the nerves that are positioned more on the front of the spinal canal. Alternatively, the MRI doesn't show my herniation properly because I had the MRI when everything returned to normal. I experience these shocks every 1-2 months, and my last MRI was done just after I fully recovered from the last episode. When I have these shocks, I’m on strong medications, lying in bed for a week, and then I have a massive body shift three weeks later. All the muscles around my waist (on the left side of my body) are very stiff. After a week, I start a series of exercises and hang on the bar, and the condition goes away after another 3-5 weeks. When I was fully recovered, I had the MRI, so I guess it doesn't show the compressed neural sac. If the MRI was done during the episode when I have those shocks, it would probably show the compression and bigger herniation. Is that correct?
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I have pain in my lower back pin..as well as in my back nape.which specialist doctor should i go..its been a year already since i started to experience pain..pain that usually lccirs inthe morning...
My husband has disc herniations of the L4 & L5. He also has bone spurs and arthritis as well. He has been on high dose steroids and opiate pain meds, and he still has a lot of pain. He is only 40 and his back problems are more than likely going to be a perm disability, since all he knows is construction type work, which requires a lot of bending and lifting.
This MRI looks just as mine, and doctors says you must go for surgery, but i dont have pain anymore that make me very uncomfortable , should i listen to doctors?
Its similar to my case ,Is it need to surgery or can be fine with physical therapy ??
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery has become commonplace technique in spinal surgery. Excellent lecture and preentation of technical tips in MISS. I look forward for next videos.
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Had this problem too got my scan and showed ruptured disc had surgery and took 1week off work pain gone instantly been over a year now no pain ps I'm a joiner with a very heavy job :)
Hi I also got back pain and it's been almost three years having this pain. So I would like to ask which hospital were you on and If it's a private hospital how much to do MRI scan
Did they put titanium rods in? That qhat I have been told, that makes me nervous
How can you ensure the additional herneation is not caused even after the surgery : removal of ruptured discs around nerve?
Inversion table helped me. I've had lot's of back problems and surgeries.
Thank you so much for explaining this..I have a bulging disc in my back and I am in so much pain and your tutorial helped me have a better understanding :)
Hi, Shaneca. Did you recover from the disc bulge? Reply please
@@nrvnrv3237 Surgery helped me recover ..I had a bulging disc several years ago I got steroid injections for a couple years I eventually had to have surgery..I just learned I have another one ..hope this helps you.
Thanks Doctor. Very similar to my MRI. Not easy for ordinary people to grasp. Well done!
I have this condition. Disc herniation, left leg pains. Numbness, pins and needles, tight hamstring. Also major lower back pains. Left side of my back is full tensed up.
I've been doing a lot of hydrotherapy and core activation exercises. Any more ideas to speed up recovery?
I'm 15 and having lower back problems and terrible nerve pain in my legs. Hoping to get an MRI soon.
I had a MRI for lower back pain few weeks ago, and as from the first day the level of pain had doubled, initially I thought this might be normal but it is getting worst, what do you recommend?
Are you saying your pain became much worse as a result of having the MRI scan?
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I have two disc protrusion on my lower back . There debating if I need surgery. Any advice ??
Great video. The doctor that did my MRI didn't explain it very well. Now I'm sure it's a pinched nerve in my back and not my feet causing the pain in my feet.
If I have l4 l5 herniated disc, with cronic lower back pain, but no leg pain, could I benefit from disectomy?
Oddly enough, I used this video to explain the herniated disc in my little dog, who suddenly lost movement in her back legs. Very informative. Thank You.
I keep losing this last, very important part (technical difficulties). I will try later. I have 3 hours to get ready to take my daughter to an appt. Due to permanent disability from Adhesive Arachnoiditis, I never know from one day to the next if I can keep an appt. the "cancel 24 hrs in advance rule" doesn't apply to me. And it takes me 3 hours to get myself ready to go. Thank God the toddler is now an adolescent & can do everything for herself & a lot for me! Later.......
I would like to see the same MRI one year post-op &hear from this patient. Better than one, 50 patients with the same problem after surgery. I had the same diagnosis. A yr ear & after 3 ESI'S
Awesome thank you for such a clear and easy to understand lesson what is being shown on a mri
I noticed that you didn't mention the Dural Ectasia and the effects it has on the disc herniation.
I just found out that I have a herniated disc but what I want to know is what is it called when u have a nerve growing on the bone from a herniated disc that's what I also am suffering from
This scares me I have three lumbar slipped discs and they hurt so bad. Plus degenerative disc disease. I refuse to have the surgery BC I'm afraid it won't work. Thanks for the info.
On the top down view, how is it that the right side is the left and visa versa?
I have thing as that only s1 has also ruptured and center of disk is now in spinal colom on nerve, 2 months in bed now its progressing, and i have losr feeling in left foot no longer flex foot towards body. That is a weird thing not to be able to move foot. I see my foot just can't make it move.
Im 54. im surprised how many people have same thing
This is a good question. Dr. Corenman personally answers all questions posted in his forum AskSpineDoc (dot) com. Please move this question there and he will be happy to help you.
Thanks!
thanks I can now read and interpret my scans!
LEFT leg pain. So the right side of the image is the left side of the body.
So it's like taking shots with camera pointed at the head looking slice by slice through the spine. I'm LUCKY you mentioned the left leg pain.
Yeah, but it's confusing to me. If we're looking down from the head to feet, shouldn't the right side be the patient's right side, too?
I have a bad back would this cause my right kidney to hurt when I walk a little bit?
Lasing in a hospital bed right now with a 10x10mm bulge at L5-S1 and this video made my stomach turn. That being said, seeing this both helps be better understand what's going on.
hi my injury seme but i am very fine this video help very impatient .
I cant wait for my MRI results...i want the pain to go away...i cant sleep and i cant do everyday things...and im only 19 ): seeing this makes my lower back hurt more...
Thank you, I’m fused from my sacrum to my L2
on my way to my 3rd fusion L1. This is the first time I was able to understand the MRI
Hey Bruce, hope your surgery helped. Did you begin fusing at the bottom, then keep having to fuse the next upper adjacent level?
@@reprisler yep, my next move is a tens unit. I did a trial and had good results
@@brucerazor5202 i hope it goes well for you. let me know if you remember. i use a tens unit with the pads on my lower back and it helps sometimes. kinda "turns down the volume" on the pain a bit. implanting one sounds kinda scary.
@@brucerazor5202 Bruce, How are you now?
Very good and short )as should be) description
Last year. i was operated the spinal disc as L4-L5 , Nowadays my health is all right.
Is it possible to have this for several years? I think I've had it for 20 years now. I have never had insurance, thus never an MRI. My pain is always but sometimes much more extreme and changes throughout the day. I only get relief by extreme S-bending my spine sideways with pillows or foam wedges. Not good for posture I know but nothing else works.
Hi. Great and helpful videos. I had a very basic question. When reading MRI images exactly like these, are the disc slices shot from underneath (ie. from the feet looking up the spine) or from above (ie. the head looking down the spine)? I'm trying to work out left and right. Obviously I'm not medically trained... but it seems to me that the shots are in reverse ... What way is the standard way round the images are printed? Thanks.
Thanks for posting, very easy to follow in simple terms!
I had a injury in my spine cord in Oct 17 in d11.i have no sensation in my lover body sence my injury.plz help me.
Thanks very much. I found this exact question on the images section of the forum, so I think I get it now. Thanks again!
Already had it cut off once l5s1. Again bulge disc now what will happen
Amazing
What they have done in medicine is magic
kindly suggest me, bz i have this problem... plzzzzzzzzzzzz
Thank you Doc
Can i send u my mri reports and explain the problem plz
Your explanation is perfect. Good info and easy to see scan. I have stenosis (severe) and will be getting a lami. :)
I have stenosis too. What are your symptoms? I can’t stand or walk longer than 5 minutes before the pain is so severe that I have to sit down
Dr. Corenman personally answers all questions posted in his forum AskSpineDoc (dot) com. Please move this there if you would like to ask Dr. Corenman for more information on your husband's situation.
Thanks!
I got an MRI because I started with sciatica pain from lower spine to right leg all way down to my foot. The top of my foot was numb to the touch than couple weeks went by and suddenly my rectum and genitals were going numb if I stood up for a while and I couldn't use the bathroom or pee regularly so I got an MRI done see what happens or what it is.
How to read the difference between Herniated disc and bulging disc in MRI?
Now what would be the solution for that
From karnataka.
Sir my problem is
Lumber spondylosis
Diffuse posterior disc bulge with small fissural tear at L4/L5 causing indentation of traversing nerve roots and
Broad based posterocentral and bilateral paramedian disc herniation at L5/S1 causing moderate compression of traversing nerve roots more left side. Pls help me sir doctor told surgery but i don't like sir pls give me sugestions
Now whts ur condition??
I've had about 6 mri's They do show my lower dics is compressed and degenerated dics disease..why dosnt my mri show how my dics are more compressed when i have to sit up or stand because i know its more compressed my surgen tried to get me approved for a mri where im able to sit up no luck .one sugen rec that he would do a dics replacement .
Thanks doc for the explanation ..
thank you very much for this video
God bless technology. Got my MRI scan this week can't wait had sciatic leg pain for over 6 months now. Think I've got a herniation
Wish my doctor would've send me for an MRI... I have been in pain for years already
My mother has same problem right now
just got my mri results today. not good. I have a small herniated disc and bulging disk on my L5-S1 region. also have mild disc degeneration in my whole lower back and more sever in L5- S1 area. I have been to 5 doctors one was a complete quack. my orthopedic dr is now sending me to a specialist to try to fix it . if not there doing surgery. he already told me that they can fix it but it will never be the same. been out of work 4 months gotten so bad can hardly walk
How's the back now Jacqueline? What did you end up doing?
+Jacqueline Paysour What the fuck did you do to your back? How are you now?
Thanatos i am walking back to normal again the discs are still pushed out. drs decided against surgery so i did other things that they asked me to and they didnt work. they said i would never work again and to apply for disability. disability told me i could work but it had to be a sitting job . I proved those drs wrong. im working now for a great company and its a sitting job.out of all the drs i saw only one told me to stay in bed and only walk when i could. it took two years just to get back to standing normal again. my back hurts all the time but i am so blessed to be able to walk again and stand up straight. my back will never be 100% again but 70% is better than nothing.
Karm A I was lifting too heavey up to 75 pounds for 7 days a week 9 to 12 hour shifts during christmas season. at this warehouse job i was working at. felt something pop on day off. went to work the next day and i felt it popped again and was very painful. whent to chiropractor who said it was a strain and a sprain plus my scolosis. he said he could fix it so i belieaved him. i was getting better but sent me back to work too soon and ended up hurting it even worse then the first time. went back to chiroproactor and he tried but my back was not responding to his work. went to several drs had mri and they said i pulled discs out in back. they talked of surgery first but decided against it. they told me to try differnt things like yoga, physicail thrapy water arobics ect. and they didnt work. i was told i would never work again and to apply for disability. disability told me to find a job sitting. one dr to told me finally to stay in bed and walk when i could and that helped. it took two years and am now stainding straight but my back still hurts every day and my dics are still pushed out but i am greatful every day that I am back on my feet. I proved the drs wrong. i now work at a great job and its a sitting job.
+Jacqueline Paysour they make women lift 75 lbs of weight at jobs nowadays? That is insane. I hope you're doing better.
Do home McKenzie Method Physical Therapy, Decompression/traction, lots of walking, and sitting as little as possible. This is the way to go to increase chances of healing.
Learn and understand what is happening with the disc when you sit or load it with weight. If you understand this you will know what home treatments work and what is keeping your disc from healing. Then alter your lifestyle to prevent discs from coming out. And pray.
Good luck with Disability. I've had several back surgeries and compression fractures of the of the spine could not work . No luck with disability. How did it work for your husband?
Possibly have one of these, your site was very helpful with all the information thru videos.
do you accept Cigna Health Insurance
why does he point to the left when he says "on the right side" and vice versa?
I thought herniated disc is an extrusion of gel or jelly kind of things. But why they were taken out as chips?
is thoraco lumbar lower slipped dics included in disability sss
Thank you for this video. I can reference this while I look at my lumbar mri scan. Seems like my disc isnt as herniated as the one in the video, just a bulge :) its compressing on my nerve which makes sense because i have radiating pain down the left leg.
How are you now? Did it ever get better?
@@andrewfuss2762 Nobody ever answers this question
Sir may is spin problems L4 L5 L3 s1 s2 know health me injury surgery no recovery 1year
I gotta feeling mine is gunna look like this when I see the results.
Dammit, I hv been saying this for years, and it works, twice 4 me, 10 years first experience, traction, crutches 2 get around, takes months,
Alot of lovessssss to you doctor
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Gracias
Then maybe its time to get something done. I could only deal with the pain of m L5 out 40% of the way for 6 months. I feel for your husband :( Time to see a surgeon you trust, who's got the experience. Some people are terrified of back surgery, what's worse?
Thanks for the video.
This helped me a lot!
So good
thank you dr.
Vry good
No I never tried Prolotherapy. What is that?
Amazing technology
Con't.. A yr earlier, I had a series of 3 Epidural Steroid Injections which relieved the pain temporarily. My first surgery was a discectomy, I recovered in 6 wks & the pain was better for 6 mos. I picked up my startled 3 yr old & a familiar pain shot down my leg. I was 2000 miles from home to be near my sister with terminal kidney cancer. She died 3 days after the shooting pain started again. I stayed 2 wks longer, changing plane reservations several times due to severe pain. Con't.
Once your disc is pushing on the nerve you need surgery Nothing helped me physio therapy did nothing only worsen it got my hips all out of aliment If they cut of more tissue then I have more time to save cash for a disc replacement at private clinic one made of silicon or something would not do a wedge fuse other wise will be in the same boat 3 years from now
Thank you sooo much
Very nice
Well job
Thanks alot ❤
Dtr what is treet mend
Aur iska operation keise hota hai who bhi bataye
Thanks look into it.
its an L5-S1 HNP.. "Herniated nucleous pulposus"
This must be one painful disc herniation. The patient also must have neurological deficites, mostly legs. But the pain must be extremely horrible!