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After a spinal injury, treatment moves through five stages: emergency stabilisation and immobilisation, scans to see the damage, a decision on surgery versus bracing, the operation…
A spine surgeon spends most of each day in clinic, not the operating theatre: reading MRIs, examining patients with kamar dard or taang mein dard, and deciding who needs surgery an…
Sometimes back or leg pain continues after spine surgery. Doctors call this failed back surgery syndrome. The usual reasons are that the wrong problem was operated on, the nerve wa…
Most back pain is not dangerous. But go to a hospital today if you have loss of bladder or bowel control, numbness around the groin or inner thighs, weakness in a leg or foot that …
Most back pain that is worse at night is mechanical, from a tired spine, a sagging mattress or a disc that hurts when you lie still. But pain that wakes you every night, comes with…
Most back pain settles with rest, physiotherapy, and time, usually within six to eight weeks. See a spine surgeon if you have leg pain worse than back pain, numbness, weakness in t…
Foot drop means you cannot lift the front of your foot, so the toes catch or slap when you walk. In back patients it usually comes from a compressed L5 nerve root. It needs urgent …
Your MRI report describes the shape of a disc, not the size of your pain. A bulge means the disc has spread out evenly. A protrusion is a small focal push. An extrusion is disc mat…
Photograph each MRI film against a bright white screen or lightbox, flash off, one film per picture, straight on and in focus. Send them on WhatsApp as a document, not a photo, so …
Most kamar dard is muscle or ligament strain and settles within a few weeks with movement, heat and simple painkillers. It becomes more than muscle pain when it travels down the le…
EMG and NCS measure how well your nerves and muscles are working. For most sciatica they are not needed, because MRI plus a proper examination usually decides treatment. Nerve test…
Numbness or tingling down the leg usually means a nerve in your lower back is being pressed, most often by a slipped disc or spinal stenosis. The pattern of numbness tells us which…