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Low Back Pain Radiating To Right Leg. MRI Showed Multilevel Dehydrated Disc Disease. Is This Neurological Problem Or Orthopedic?
MRI showed "multilevel dehydrated disc disease causing central canal and lateral recess stenosis with most prominent changes ate L4-5"
I am 58 years old and I contacted the medical specialist because I was having low back ache radiating to right leg. Please advise me which specialist I should approach for? I mean neurologist or orthopedic?
I am 58 years old and I contacted the medical specialist because I was having low back ache radiating to right leg. Please advise me which specialist I should approach for? I mean neurologist or orthopedic?
Fri, 10 May 2013
Hi,
You may approach a neurosurgeon since it involved the nerve of the spine.If the neurological complications are there then a neurosurgeon should be consulted first.
Though if the neurosurgeon is not available then consultation from the orthopaedician may also be done.
Sometimes a team approach involving both is done.
You may approach a neurosurgeon since it involved the nerve of the spine.If the neurological complications are there then a neurosurgeon should be consulted first.
Though if the neurosurgeon is not available then consultation from the orthopaedician may also be done.
Sometimes a team approach involving both is done.
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