
Have Low Back Pain. Pain In Buttocks Radiating To Legs. Walking Painful. Reason?

Might be due to a pinched nerve.
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Your symptoms are typically suggestive of Lumbar disc disease with radiculopathy. This implies that a protruded intervertebral disc in the lumbar spine is compressing over a nerve root leading to pain going down from buttock into the leg.
An MRI scan of the lumbar spine will establish the diagnosis.
The initial management of this condition is always by conservative means -
* avoid lifting heavy weights as it imparts more strain on your back
* avoid forward bending activities as it will worsen the disc protrusion
* Use a lumbosacral back support to augment your spinal muscles
* Intermittent pelvic traction to cause a regression of disc
* Maintain optimum body weight,if you are obese
* Physiotherapy to strengthen your back muscles. Physiotherapy has to be done only after the acute pain has subsided.
* Judicious use of analgesics and muscle relaxants.
Hope I have addressed your query. Happy to help further.

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Dr. K. Naga Ravi Prasad
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