Dear MSK 101

Thanks a lot for your suggestions and help - I really appreciate that very much.

Just to give some background : At the first visit to the clinic they asked me to do some tests - I was already out of the acute phase - and was able to walk a little bit, sit to a soft sofa and have food.

They asked me to walk on my feet toes (passed) - stand on them for a bout 5 seconds (passed) - walk on my heels (passed) – stand up right and bend forward slowly while legs stretched till I feel pain and stop (bent at approx 40 degrees from vertical position) – lay down on my back and do straight leg raise slowly till I feel pain / one by one (achieved only 30-40 degrees).

By today session – I have taken 6 sessions

Today as I was having the session a new physio therapist came and started to do some strange stretches to me – he asked me to lay on my side at the edge of the table (right side here), swing my left leg forward - straight in the air - and he positioned himself between the too legs, starting to push my left leg outward while pressing on my right leg – till I feel pain and hold for 5 to 10 seconds – repeated for three times for the left leg , then he did the same for the right leg.

I was surprised to see my leg could be stretched to reach approx 90 degrees.

He then asked me to lay on face on the table and started to do some pushing on some points – and he said that I had also a problem in the sacro iliac joints – and he applied some pressure on some points – after that I felt some pain relief.

As I concluded that he is doing something good – I asked him if he knows something about Mckenzi stretches and if it is suitable in my case – he replied that why not to think about William flexion – and he added sometimes they get him confused as they prescribe complete different treatment scenarios for the same case !!

I hope that you can kindly have some advise on that?

After the session today – I started to try walking and I was able to walk 10 minutes without a spasm (only some pain in my left leg calf - for which I had taken 200mg Celprex to tolerate) and I was very happy to be able do that.

I am annoyed by that pain – and it might be away from my disk problem – as I still not able to sit on my computer chair (at home) unless I bring my left (or sometimes right) leg and fold it on the chair near or under my other thigh !! – and that pain is only from the calf to the knee frontal side (not coming from the back of the thigh)

Do you have any explaination to that strange way to be able to sit ?

Finally, thanks MSK for your help.

Cheers

Ashraf