A doctor named Dr Mark Porter unexpectedly became patient due to “slipped discs” and he explained how it can happened and how painful it can be. Four months ago Mark hurt his back washing his car, and instead of gradually getting better over the next 6 weeks, as most as the slipped discs do, his back got progressively worse. By the tenth week he felt pins and needles down his left leg and was having difficulty for walking. We went with a specialist, he was advised to have surgery. This was a delicate operation that he heed if he wanted to be the same. The spine is made up of vertebrae and between these are a part called cartilage discs. Those in the lower back are called the Lumber Vertebrae and it was here that Mark had the damage .Discs are immensely strong and allow mobility in the spine. They are made up of fibrous tissue arranged in layers and in the middle there is a material that is incompressible and acts as the weight-bearing structure in the disc. As we get older our discs weaken, allowing the soft material press on the nerves going down the spine. The doctor explain the symptoms of the most people with slipped discs will get better without surgery and they generally get better within the first six weeks. If the pain, pins and needles, or weakness starts to affect both legs or people have difficulty controlling your bowels or bladder, that suggests more nerve compression and constitutes a medical emergency and we have to contact our doctor immediately.And if your symptoms have not improved by six weeks then ask your doctor for a referral to a specialist who can arrange a MR to confirm what is going on. Dr. Mark was advised he needed an operation which is called a microdiscectomy, this involves opening the spine to remove the disc that’s squeezing the nerve root. It’s done via an operating microscope through a tiny incision in the back and takes about an hour and a half. Microdiscectomy is now the standard treatment for the minority of slipped discs that require surgery because they are not getting better, or because they are causing worrying neurological symptoms.
miércoles, 28 de mayo de 2008
SLIPPED DISCS My 10th COMMENT
A doctor named Dr Mark Porter unexpectedly became patient due to “slipped discs” and he explained how it can happened and how painful it can be. Four months ago Mark hurt his back washing his car, and instead of gradually getting better over the next 6 weeks, as most as the slipped discs do, his back got progressively worse. By the tenth week he felt pins and needles down his left leg and was having difficulty for walking. We went with a specialist, he was advised to have surgery. This was a delicate operation that he heed if he wanted to be the same. The spine is made up of vertebrae and between these are a part called cartilage discs. Those in the lower back are called the Lumber Vertebrae and it was here that Mark had the damage .Discs are immensely strong and allow mobility in the spine. They are made up of fibrous tissue arranged in layers and in the middle there is a material that is incompressible and acts as the weight-bearing structure in the disc. As we get older our discs weaken, allowing the soft material press on the nerves going down the spine. The doctor explain the symptoms of the most people with slipped discs will get better without surgery and they generally get better within the first six weeks. If the pain, pins and needles, or weakness starts to affect both legs or people have difficulty controlling your bowels or bladder, that suggests more nerve compression and constitutes a medical emergency and we have to contact our doctor immediately.And if your symptoms have not improved by six weeks then ask your doctor for a referral to a specialist who can arrange a MR to confirm what is going on. Dr. Mark was advised he needed an operation which is called a microdiscectomy, this involves opening the spine to remove the disc that’s squeezing the nerve root. It’s done via an operating microscope through a tiny incision in the back and takes about an hour and a half. Microdiscectomy is now the standard treatment for the minority of slipped discs that require surgery because they are not getting better, or because they are causing worrying neurological symptoms.
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Excellent account on this painful problem of the spine.
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