Chronic Calf Pain....

[junior_physiotherapist]

Hallo,


Let's hope fast recovery for your wife firstly,

In addition to being need full assessment of your wife,check for pain cladication(ischemic pain),.......

[Nagsy]

Hello all,

Here's an update on the calf pain my wife has been experiencing - it turns out that she has a very minor slipped disc in her lumbar region. I don't know exactly which disc but the doc told my wife it was one of the smaller ones - possibly L4-L5 or L5-S1.

She has been told to bed-rest for at least 6 weeks and then the docs would re-review and if there was a need surgery this would take place.

The doc also said that since the pain was so bad even with so much medication they may have to perform the surgery earlier

Can slipped discs heal with bed-rest?

In the mean-time is there anything we can do to aid her recovery?

Can any form of manipulation from a physio/chiropracter etc etc make any difference?

Thanks,

Nagsy

[junior_physiotherapist]

Hallo,

The reason for aking her to stick to bed rest for that period to permite the time and mechanism for healing process,and you should be careful not to let her to stick to bed 24 hours all day ,no she have to walk for about 7-10 minutes every one hour of her laying,thus we could prevent healing process in a wrong way,....

The causes for surgery:

1.The conservative treatment failed to relive pains,
2.Urinary incontinence(bladder and bowel control absent)!


Surgery not usually the perfect solution ,as in operations of disc prolabes surgoen will change(mostly decrease)stability of vertebra and quensecnetly pains back this is the nature of such operations not releated to best hands surgeon!

Hope this could help you,..you can ask your physician all questions you have as this your own right,

[Paulsm]

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