Emergency Surgery for a Disc Herniation (Cauda Equina Syndrome) - My story.
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Hello everyone, in this video I try my best to share my experience before and after my L4/L5 Discectomy & Laminectomy: Pending Cauda Equina Syndrome.
I hope to shed some light into this devastating condition and to be of help to anyone in the same boat.
I share some symptoms of a lumbar disk herniation, compressing the Cauda Equina nerve roots (Syndrome). I recommend exercises and frequent movement for your post operative exercise rehabilitation program.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing your story. I am just beginning my own experience with this. My mri shows pressure on the cauda aquina, as I wait for my referral to Spine Dept. They seem to be taking their time, so I have to sit with the knowledge of the terrible things that could go wrong. I’m so happy you had a good outcome.
Hey! sorry for the delayed response! This is the only video in this account, and I hadn't looked at it much. Sorry to hear about your experience...and not knowing! Thanks for the kind words, I'm in a much, much better place now. No pain! I've also changed my activities, and stopped the type of extreme sports I did before. I kept a diary of the symptoms, which help when you're in front of the doctors. anyway, let me know if there's anything I can help with!
Hiya just want to know hows everything going??
hey hey sorry it took so long to reply! I'm doing great! thank you! no pain anymore at all! My legs cramp once in a while if I'm just in a pool for example, which is quite odd, but that got better with weight training. Our bodies are amazing so as long as we are pushing our goals, our bodies will try to adapt, in my opinion. I have less innervation going to my tibialis anterior muscle on my right side, which is likely a result of trauma from the surgery. this causes weakness when pulling back my toes..which can develop into "drop foot". I had drop foot in the beginning of my recovery, but with time, exercise and consciously trying to dorsi flex it got a lot better that nobody can notice the slight difference between left and right foot gait. I don't notice the lack of muscle strength in that foot with any day to day activity, or sports (for the most part; excluding Brazilian jui jitsu). :)