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QUESTION:
First; I want to thank everyone who responded to my questions..It is
appreciated. This is a great group with a lot of good information.
OK..next; with full realization that one can not convey the entire medical
picture via this medium, I probably did not do a good job in my initial
post.
I do not have access to my MRI impression with me tonight, or I would quote
it verbatim.
I do have a medical background as a Perfusionist, hardly any help as it is
far removed from Orthopaedics etc...
ANSWER:
When I retrieve my MRI report from my office, I will quote it verbatim as
there were measurements concerning the bulge. Perhaps a physician on board
here can tell me if it seems to be a serious bulge or not based on the AP
cranial caudal measurements.
OK; here is what exacerbates my pain..please no "Don't do that" jokes. :)
1) In the morning I am very tight in the hip and right gluteal region. I can
NOT touch my toes. Burns like hell in the hip. As the day wears on I can
touch my toes. Actually, I can stand with feet together and press my palms
flat to the floor. I was always very flexible due to years of martial arts.
2) Lying on my back and attempting to raise my left leg, it hurts like hell!
Best way to describe it is like a hot cable running from my right buttox,
following the femer line to midway between knee and butt. Right leg raise is
no problem. Odd the MRI scan impression was a LEFT side bulge yet I feel it
on the right. Hmmm? Must be the way the nerve is inervated?
3) Standing for more than 30 mins brings on more pain.
I have no idea whether the discussion that follows pertains to this person's
apparent low back pain/sciatica problem...
Some might find it interesting though.
Since most humans on the planet flex their lumbar spines while resting
(squatting or sitting cross-legged)...
And since we chairdwellers lose our flat-footed squatting ability and
*don't* routinely flex our lumbar spines while resting (and end up wearing
out our posterior disc quadrants perhaps/probably? as a consequence)...
Canadian orthopedic surgeon W. Harry Fahrni, MD recommended that we not let
our children lose their innate flat-footed squatting ability.
For low back pain patients Fahrni recommended a form of slouching while
sitting - so that the lumbar spine would be flexed - to let the posterior
disc quadrant heal:
"[D]uring one's usual resting periods, one rests the back in flexion, not as
an occasional or periodic exercise, but as a permanent habit..."
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