By: Richard C

Richard C — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:26:55 +0000

I am sorry for all that you are going through! What you need to find is a physical therapist that will work with you. This can be done on a self pay basis and doesn’t have to break your budget. What you are looking for is someone that will work on you with a hands on approach. There are some movements that can be done to move the fluid portion of the disc off the nerves. The fluid portion of the disc is made up a material that is like yogurt and not water. It can be influenced away from the nerve. There are other aspects of this that also have to be taken into account. For one most surgeons will tell you that back surgery is not anywhere near perfect. By their own statistics it is only successful in fifty percent of the cases and the long term studies show that the success rate is not much better than doing nothing. The steroid injections are only good for at most six months. So the therapy should be able to help you long term if you follow those guidelines forever. There are things that you can do to help yourself also. One if you are overweight start to loss it now! Find a pool and start walking in chest high water. The water will cut you weight by as much as forty percent and that will ease the stress on the lower back. When standing squeeze the buttocks as hard as you can as often as you can. This simple maneuver will help to strengthen the buttocks but it will also help to bring the pelvis into a neutral position. That position helps to move the disc back into the correct position. Watch your posture! Avoid slumping and sit up straight. Get a high back wooden rocker and sit in there and rock. The rocking is very sediative to the nervous system and the position is good for the back. Before going to bed lie on the bed on your stomach. If you can tolerate lying on your stomach with the weight on the forearms even better. Stay like that one to two minutes. What you are looking for is a change in the pain pattern. Right now there is numbness in the leg and with this pattern you want that to start to move up the leg towards the buttocks. That is a very successful treatment when that starts. So at this point you need to start calling therapists to find one that will work with you and do the other things.

By: cowgirl

cowgirl — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:54:38 +0000

If you have a hospital where college students work at like uams here, they have a program that you can apply for to have them pay for all or a percentage of the cost. I applied and got 100% discount, and all i had to pay for was $20.00 office visits, and they paid for my test and surgery. You’ll have to have proof from medicare that you don’t qualify, and income, and you’ll be approved. Good luck!

By: TBICKIYA

TBICKIYA — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:20:12 +0000

ask some of your close friends or relatives to help you pay for the necessary insurance that you need to get surgery, this is a really tough time economically and if you don’t have people in your family helping you out, your going to be stuck like you are for quite some time, don’t rely on government either, because they could care less,

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