Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. I want to know your age and sex? Do you have any history of trauma, jerk, or twisting? Are you a known case of diabetes or hypertension? How long do you have pain and sound? Have you taken single or three doses of steroids? And when did you take it? Kindly answer the questions and follow up so I can guide you regarding further management..
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. According to your complaints, there may be chances of nerve root compression, which causes pain in legs. Many times nerve that supplies legs are coming out of the spinal cord, and the function of these nerve roots are hampered due to compression at spinal cord level. So, my suggestion is to do MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) of LS spine with the screening of the whole spine. So, we can check the status of the level and severity of the nerve root compression and diameter of the nerve root foramen.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. As per your history of weight lifting and finding of MRI (attachment removed to protect patient identity) sacralization of L5-S1 disc and nerve root compression at L3-L4 and retrolysthesis L3 and L4 means posterior displacement of one vertebra over another occurs. So that it also causes nerve root compression, which is responsible for pain sensation and motor (movement). Sometime pain also radiates to the lower limb, tingling and numbness may happen, and sometime hypoesthesia may happen. In your case, pain is restricted to back only not radiated and other areas I think.
Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. Please mention the history of trauma. Please mention the exact location of pain whether it is located in the back or radiates to the leg. Please mention whether your grandmother has a history of tingling and numbness. .
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. I have seen the pictures (attachment removed to protect patient identity). Yes, it looks like a tennis elbow. In tennis elbow, common extensor muscle tendon attached to the outer side of elbow gets inflamed. And its name suggests that it is common in tennis players due to twisting movent of the upper limb.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. I want to know regarding history of weight lifting, any jerk or trauma? From your history, it is most likely due to muscle spasm..
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. Nice explanation regarding your condition. From your history, it looks like you are suffering from degenerative osteoarthritis. I suggest you to do an x-ray to know the stage of osteoarthritis and decide its mode of management and treatment..
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