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I've had episodes of lower back pains growing up. I believe its mainly from bad posture when I was younger, I used to be heavy set, a bad mattress, and standing in flat shoes for 7 hours for 2 years at my previous job. Recently I got this pain around my hip, I thought it was a herniated disk because it happened following the day I worked the inner outer thigh area in the gym. My back was in pain and I couldn't sit without squirming around due to my leg aching or tingling. I visited a chiropractor, and the x-ray showed degenerative something in my l4 and l5 verterbrae and was told I can make a 90% recovery due to my age and what he saw from the tests he ran on me. Fast forward 2 weeks and I still got pains in the morning but they aren't as bad as they were 2 weeks ago because I did the doctor recommended stretching, icing treatment, and avoiding sitting too long. Now, I still really can't bend over fully. Walking and jogging doesn't seem to bother me though, in fact it feels like it helps. I've been recommended to work on strengthening my core now, but before that I was wondering if anyone else has gone through this?
I believed I had sciatica, to piroformis syndrome, to acute back pains which is it? The chiropractor was too vague, and suggested I go to a spine doctor. I know most of you guys would probably suggest getting an MRI but before doing so what are some things I can do to determine if my condition is really bad and probably wont get any better unless I go? I can walk/jogg just fine. Sitting isn't so bad (anymore), I still get tingling in my left leg, I can still just about normal every day activities with little agitation, nothing real physical yet though. Help famb! Its a pain in the ***, literally.
I believed I had sciatica, to piroformis syndrome, to acute back pains which is it? The chiropractor was too vague, and suggested I go to a spine doctor. I know most of you guys would probably suggest getting an MRI but before doing so what are some things I can do to determine if my condition is really bad and probably wont get any better unless I go? I can walk/jogg just fine. Sitting isn't so bad (anymore), I still get tingling in my left leg, I can still just about normal every day activities with little agitation, nothing real physical yet though. Help famb! Its a pain in the ***, literally.
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