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Originally Posted by Tobra
Literally anything? More like try everything.
I would talk to a witch doctor about voodoo treatment before I would get back surgery
I kid, sort of
Your spinal column is kinda complicated
https://teachmeanatomy.info/back/bones/vertebral-column/
It moves sort of like a rope made out of a stack of bone blocks(vertebrae) with gel shock absorbers(intervertebral discs) between them, with gel prevented from leaking out by a fibrous wrapping that contains the gel.
The spine is pretty straight, or should be from the front; if you look at it from the side, it is curved, because the bone blocks are semi wedge shaped. Behind the bone/shock absorber column is a roughly triangular shaped space with little struts of bone that stick out the back and to either side of this triangular shaped space. The little struts are where the muscles attach. Looking at a vertebra from the top, you have a sort of round bone, that has this pieces sticking out the back that forms the triangular shaped space that carries the Spinal Cord, which is all the nerves coming out of your melon like a big cable that has smaller cables coming off at each vertebral level. Each of these nerves is often bundled with nerves from the level above or below to form larger nerves, which is the deal with your sciatic nerve, which is like 4 or 5 levels of vertebral nerves bundled together and runs from your lower back to your foot, with the nerve getting smaller as it goes down your leg and gives innervation to structures along the way.
This nerve is big as one of your fingers in your lower back/ass, and can get hung up at a number of different levels. For example, you can have a tight piriformis muscle and it compresses the sciatic nerve, giving you screaming pain down the back of your leg that is quite incapacitating. You can also have an intervertebral disc herniate posteriorly and impinge on the spinal cord.
First thing is to figure out what is causing the symptoms. Surgery is what you think about when all the conservative measures have failed and your quality of life is crap. |
Yes, I fully agree and mine went out on Saturday, just as I got to where I could walk without a cane. When I 1st started having serious back issues, 1st thing said was steroids, then surgery. Fortunately, had friends (and my girlfriend at the time) in the medical profession, and they pointed out the percentage of success,seems like you have a better chance of winning in Las Vegas. I’ll stick with my acupuncture (see what I did) Chinese girl giving me a massage and my stretching and work outs in a swimming pool.
Honestly, the pool helps me a lot and that is why I keep telling my pain management doctor that I prefer aqua PT over pain pills. And the latest X-rays show lots of damage, and most arthritis, something they say nothing can be done about. I’m tired of living in pain, but I have responsibilities and my elderly Mother counts on me, as does the feral cat colony I feed. If I wasn’t needed for those, I’d probably just say screw it. Seriously, I’m tired of the pain, tired of the so called friends who don’t do what they say or only hear from them when they need something, just flat out tired or not being physically able too do what I used to do with ease..
The old man in Logan’s Run had it right.