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What Causes Lower Back Pain, Pain During Coughing And Muscle Spasms?
severe, lower back pain which radiated to left buttock, leg and foot. dull pain was intensifies during coughing, sneezing and bending. experienced muscle spasms in the leg. also experienced muscle spasms in the leg. There was mild sensory and motor loss in the left buttock and leg as well.
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Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Hello,
This looks to me as lumbar radiculopathy and an MRI is advised.
As due to lumbar radiculopathy there might be some soft tissue injury at the spinal nerve level leading to disturbed sensation to the dermatomes and myotomes the nerve supplies.
As there is the loss of sensation and pain in the lower limbs I think MRI is a must to figure out at which level what is going wrong with the soft tissue.
With rest, lumbosacral brace, hot water fermentation, core stability exercises, spinal muscle strengthening exercises, hip muscle strengthening exercises, static quadriceps, static hamstring, ankle toe movement's, straight leg raise you should do well. go with low-intensity exercises.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Jay Indravadan Patel, Physical Therapist or Physiotherapist
This looks to me as lumbar radiculopathy and an MRI is advised.
As due to lumbar radiculopathy there might be some soft tissue injury at the spinal nerve level leading to disturbed sensation to the dermatomes and myotomes the nerve supplies.
As there is the loss of sensation and pain in the lower limbs I think MRI is a must to figure out at which level what is going wrong with the soft tissue.
With rest, lumbosacral brace, hot water fermentation, core stability exercises, spinal muscle strengthening exercises, hip muscle strengthening exercises, static quadriceps, static hamstring, ankle toe movement's, straight leg raise you should do well. go with low-intensity exercises.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Jay Indravadan Patel, Physical Therapist or Physiotherapist
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