What causes stiffness and numbness post slipped disc surgery?
Patient: history of disc herniation at L4,L5. Have been experiencing stiffness and achy in right posterior hip. Feels like a knot there. Starting yesterday I have numbness at that location, going down into my leg and I have numbness and weakness in my foot , which I can t flex up towards my leg. Doctor: hi,thank-you for providing the brief history of you.As you have undergone surgery for the L4-L5 disc herniation there is a possibility of the fragment from the disc to dislodge again or may be a muscle spasm in the lumbar paraspinal muscles which takes the incisional point.Taking an MRI should make understand if the disc fragment is dislodged again. If MRI report comes fine then it's just muscular and with muscle relaxant it should be fine.In my clinical practice we make approach in a way to diagnose correctly and make sure the pain do not returnRegards Jay Indravadan Patel