Suggest treatment for back pain
Patient: I have suffered with a back pain (L5) for 2 years after and prolapsed disc and had recovered but got worse recently and experienced lower back pain and pain in both legs. After 10 days this escalated into numbness from the waist down and admitted to hospital and diagnosed with Caudia Equina Syndrome and had surgery to remove the compression within about 24 hours. It is now over 3 weeks since the operation and still have little feeling in the right foot, have lost a large percentage of muscle tome in my calves and backs of legs and buttocks and still have no feeling artound my saddle area. It is also very difficult to predict when I need to empty my bowels. Whatg are the chances of a full rcovery in this instance Doctor: Dear you have come out of a crisis due to timely intervention of the treating surgeon. Cauda equina syndrome is a urgent indication for surgery and that so because, it causes compression on nerve supplying our bowel and bladder. now since decompression has been done you will have no further deterioration, but the neural deficit you already developed before surgery takes tie to recover and this time depends form 4 to 6 months and sometimes year.Be patient follow the instructions given to you regarding physiotherapy. and you will get ok with time