Share this article📱 SMS✉️ Email📘 Facebook💼 LinkedIn✖️ X💬 WhatsApp🔗 Copy Link Your foot has become weak. The toes catch on the floor, the foot may slap when you walk, and lifting the front of the foot toward the shin has become difficult. This is commonly called foot drop. Two important causes can look remarkably similar: […]
Share this article📱 SMS✉️ Email📘 Facebook💼 LinkedIn✖️ X💬 WhatsApp🔗 Copy Link You notice numbness in your big toe. Maybe it also affects the top of your foot. Perhaps there is tingling, burning, or pain farther up the leg. Does that mean you have a pinched L5 nerve root? It certainly can. The L5 nerve root […]
You have pain running down your leg. Your MRI mentions several abnormal discs. One doctor says L4, another says L5, and the report mentions narrowing near S1. So which nerve is actually causing the pain? L4 vs L5 vs S1 nerve root pain can produce different patterns of numbness, weakness, and radiating leg symptoms. Textbook […]
Share this article📱 SMS✉️ Email📘 Facebook💼 LinkedIn✖️ X💬 WhatsApp🔗 Copy Link A spinal cord stimulator trial can answer an important question: does electrical stimulation meaningfully reduce your pain right now? What it cannot tell you with certainty is what will happen after the temporary leads are replaced by a permanent system and that system has […]
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