Low Back Pain

'it sounds as if the jam has come out of your doughnut'

He means a slipped disc

As a health care worker I sat through the same course.

Plus it happened to mr wishi many moons ago.

The leg exercises should help in the short term.

He means the fluid come out of the disc.

'He means the fluid come out of the disc'

As in a slipped disc...

If he'd slipped a disk he'd know about it. Cannot be that.

Sort of but slightly different, a slipped disc is where the disc pops out, causes a lot of pain, usually you are bent double or can't move but will eventually pop back in, whereas loss of fluid causes constant pain due to spine pressing on nerves causing severe pain in lower back and in most cases spreads to limbs, i.e.calfs, thighs, this will not right itself as it is due to general wear and tear on the discs, you can only manage it as best as you can. Facet joint injections are one option and initially you feel like a new person but it is basically just a steroid which wears off after a few months, sorry to go on about it but it has affected me for about 15 years now and it's not pleasant.

Get you, Earl Brutus, are you an orthopod or something, or do you subscribe to Gait and Posture journal, you anorak!

'If he'd slipped a disk he'd know about it. Cannot be that.'

Not necessarily. I mean he'd be in a lot of pain, of course, but he's complaining of pain, anyway. When mr wishi had it he wasn't diagnosed until a physio he worked with spotted the signs.

I'm the back pain king.

Backs are difficult to diagnose, anyway.

X-rays, ultrasound and so on, it'd take a while to pin down the cause, and most of the time a GP will say exercise first before the last resort is called for, surgery,

mri is where it's at.

I knew somebody who complained about back pain - he died.