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follow all recommendations....NO CHIROPRACTOR. Seean orthopedic or neurosurgical spine specialist. An MRI is in your future and the L4-L5 disc herniation is likely your diagnosis???
I operate on the spine with one of our neurosurgeons weekly ...I expose the spine from the front or the side. BTW I have an L4-L5 blown disc, mild compression fx from years of the martial arts.
Get it checked....you may only need rest or an epidural steroid injection or (as I lick my lips........) SURGERY, which is a last resort.
Good luck and avoid the non-surgeon back guys....I could tell you stories!!
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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