Nerve intrapment / pinch causing leg pain ?

[ASTANA]

 

Firstly you need to establish what triggered the onset of the condition. Was it cycling and if so' date=' what was your frequency/intensity of training. Can you establish any correlation between cycling effort and condition deterioration. If so, then you have a fitting issue and this needs to be rectified. I'd strongly suggest you contact Petie Viljoen at Helderberg Cycles - he is a qualified Specialized BG Fit technician and is comfortably as equipped as anyone to deal with this. Perhaps call him and have a chat. [/quote']

 

Hallo

 

How do you know Petie at helderberg ? Yeah will check the setup, but for now just want the pain to go away first - I'm not cycling now - stopped to first see to the pain / discomfort / stiffness feeling I'm having.

 

I did a fair amount of cycling - 6 days a week and about 2 hours per day and longer rides on weekends.

 

Really pushed it and was feeling good. This just happened inbetween all of this.

 

Might be ome hyperextention on my MTB as I bought a MTB mid last year and first felt the stabbing pain on the MTB. From there it bugged me on the road bike - got worse and now here I am - stuck.

 

MRI of the lower back maby ?

 

seeing the neurologist in 2 weeks time (soonest open spot)

 

[porky]

It can definately be a lower back problem. If the cuschion between L4 - L5 or L5 - S1 is damaged it can pinch the nerves running into your legs. This can happen without any 'incident' taking place. MRI will definately show it.

 

If that is the problem go see dr Hanhle at Linksfield. He replaced L5 S1 with an artificial disc and less than 1 year later I did Sani2C and can do anything I did before.

 

Hmm. I was also in Linksfield for my fusions, both lumbar and cervical, done by Dr Weinberg. I think he owes me a "good customer discount " 

 

As far as I know Linksfield is one of the few specialist hospitals for spinal injury, I really looked around for my cervical procedure but no other facility, in my opinion, came close to Linsfield dedicated spinal injury unit.

 

I have artificial discs between L4 / L5 and between c4/ c5 / c6 - absolutely no side effects and since the op I have run 2 comrades, a few 2 Oceans marathons, and various bike races as well as doing everything I did before - 100% recovery. 

 

Actually, they are very successfull surgical procedures, and today you get a sort of swivel which they can use in place of artificial discs so you regain almost full movement, (although some medical aids wont pay for it as its a bit more expensive) which is the only real issue of artificial discs (the slight loss of movement.)

 

 

 

[ASTANA]

 

It can definately be a lower back problem. If the cuschion between L4 - L5 or L5 - S1 is damaged it can pinch the nerves running into your legs. This can happen without any 'incident' taking place. MRI will definately show it.

 

If that is the problem go see dr Hanhle at Linksfield. He replaced L5 S1 with an artificial disc and less than 1 year later I did Sani2C and can do anything I did before.

 

Hmm. I was also in Linksfield for my fusions' date=' both lumbar and cervical, done by Dr Weinberg. I think he owes me a "good customer discount " 

 

As far as I know Linksfield is one of the few specialist hospitals for spinal injury, I really looked around for my cervical procedure but no other facility, in my opinion, came close to Linsfield dedicated spinal injury unit.

 

I have artificial discs between L4 / L5 and between c4/ c5 / c6 - absolutely no side effects and since the op I have run 2 comrades, a few 2 Oceans marathons, and various bike races as well as doing everything I did before - 100% recovery. 

 

Actually, they are very successfull surgical procedures, and today you get a sort of swivel which they can use in place of artificial discs so you regain almost full movement, (although some medical aids wont pay for it as its a bit more expensive) which is the only real issue of artificial discs (the slight loss of movement.)

 

 

 

[/quote']

 

What was wrong with you to have the op ? Mean side effects except the back pain ?

 

My issue is not the lower back - more the stabbing pain in my legs

 

[ASTANA]

 

hahahahahahaha

i had this...gt my back fixed and havent had a problem since.....

i take it as tho u r a GP???

i would say more...

hahaha

 

WTF ?

 

[porky]

It can definately be a lower back problem. If the cuschion between L4 - L5 or L5 - S1 is damaged it can pinch the nerves running into your legs. This can happen without any 'incident' taking place. MRI will definately show it.

 

If that is the problem go see dr Hanhle at Linksfield. He replaced L5 S1 with an artificial disc and less than 1 year later I did Sani2C and can do anything I did before.

 

Hmm. I was also in Linksfield for my fusions' date=' both lumbar and cervical, done by Dr Weinberg. I think he owes me a "good customer discount " 

 

As far as I know Linksfield is one of the few specialist hospitals for spinal injury, I really looked around for my cervical procedure but no other facility, in my opinion, came close to Linsfield dedicated spinal injury unit.

 

I have artificial discs between L4 / L5 and between c4/ c5 / c6 - absolutely no side effects and since the op I have run 2 comrades, a few 2 Oceans marathons, and various bike races as well as doing everything I did before - 100% recovery. 

 

Actually, they are very successfull surgical procedures, and today you get a sort of swivel which they can use in place of artificial discs so you regain almost full movement, (although some medical aids wont pay for it as its a bit more expensive) which is the only real issue of artificial discs (the slight loss of movement.)

 

 

 

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What was wrong with you to have the op ? Mean side effects except the back pain ?

My issue is not the lower back - more the stabbing pain in my legs

 

Pain in the legs CAN (not always obviously) be caused by a traped nerve in the lower Lumbar spine. You need not have any back pain to have lumbar nerve inpingement as the pain manifests itself in differant areas.

 

My lumbar fusion was due to collapsed discs which caused the nerves to be trapped between the spinal column - I had absolutely no back pain, only pain in my left leg which manifested itself on the inner thigh. It started with stabbing pain and a bit of lamness, but over the period of say 6 months it became so intense and debilitating that I could not even press down on the clutch pedal in my car.

 

My cervical injury was caused by an accident.