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Suggest Remedies For Right Leg Pain With Two Smallest Toes Numbness
I was in a car for 20 hours over the course of 3 days with frequent stops except during the last 4.5 to 5 hours which was straight thru. Since then, my right leg has had pain when I straightened it and my two smallest toes are numb. I ve been home a week. I previously had a pulled hamstring in the same leg almost 2 years ago.
Fri, 22 Apr 2016
hi,
thank-you for providing the brief history of you.
A thorough neuromuscular assessment is advised.
As you have pain in the right leg when you straighten it and two toes are numb as well, I will advice to undergo a clinical neuromuscular assessment which can be helped by a ortho.
As the symptoms looks a combination of inter vertebral disc pathology and hamstring pull, post clinical assessment it can help guide further.
Also, an MRI might get recommend to you of lumbar spine to see any soft tissue Injury. as you were driving for long hours.
Usually for this kind of pain, rest , medication and physcial therapy is advised. Usually patients recover in 3-4 weeks of time. You will be taught proper exercises to strengthen the muscles of the core, pelvic Floor, spine, hips, lower limbs on both sides.
In the mean time, kindly avoid sitting on a floor, avoid jerking movements of the spine, avoid sqatting etc. the physiological healing will take its own role.
Also, in my clinical practice I have seen cases with such issues and they respond well to physical therapy after a thorough neuromuscular assessment.
Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel
thank-you for providing the brief history of you.
A thorough neuromuscular assessment is advised.
As you have pain in the right leg when you straighten it and two toes are numb as well, I will advice to undergo a clinical neuromuscular assessment which can be helped by a ortho.
As the symptoms looks a combination of inter vertebral disc pathology and hamstring pull, post clinical assessment it can help guide further.
Also, an MRI might get recommend to you of lumbar spine to see any soft tissue Injury. as you were driving for long hours.
Usually for this kind of pain, rest , medication and physcial therapy is advised. Usually patients recover in 3-4 weeks of time. You will be taught proper exercises to strengthen the muscles of the core, pelvic Floor, spine, hips, lower limbs on both sides.
In the mean time, kindly avoid sitting on a floor, avoid jerking movements of the spine, avoid sqatting etc. the physiological healing will take its own role.
Also, in my clinical practice I have seen cases with such issues and they respond well to physical therapy after a thorough neuromuscular assessment.
Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel
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