Question
Back injury resulting in nerve problems will present as pain or numbness spreading from back/buttock down along your leg, with or without "pins and needles" sensation or weakness in your leg/foot/buttock, ON TOP OF your main back pain.
The presence of one or more of these signs usually necessitate a referral to a spine specialist by your GP so that an MRI scan can be done to evaluate both your spine as well as your nerves (remember X-rays CANNOT visualise nerves).
Hi there
Just to add to what Dr Shee Yan has mentioned, if you are having red flag symptoms i.e. issues with bowel control, bladder control or numbness around the back passage (anus) please go and see someone urgently.
In many situations, unless there is profound pain or these red flag symptoms, most clinicians will suggest some sort of conservative management first, with pain killers, physiotherapy and sometimes nerve root injections. The latter can be done under CT, X-ray or ultrasound guidance.
Hope this helps.
BW
Dr Dinesh
I can completely understand your disappointment at being told to cut back on sports, being an avid sports person myself. I shall attempt to break down and explain the situation for you: 1. The evidence about whether IgA nephropathy patients should completely avoid strenuous exercise is equivocal, to my knowledge. Data has shown that even though significantly increased levels of proteinuria are noted after intense exercise (maximal treadmill Bruce test), this lasts for less than 120 minutes.
I’m sorry to hear about your pain. For an active sportsman, that certainly can be quite distressing. I don’t think you have dislocated as that will really really be painful and will be hard to walk. But popping sounds can be a sign of other illnesses, perhaps you might want to see a doctor to get it properly diagnosed, there are some “childhood” diseases that can predispose patients to hip injuries.
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