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Why Is My Father Unable To Stand On His Legs With Back Pain?

Hello docter, my father is 86 yrs, 6 feet in height he was suffering from back pain from last few yrs till few days back one morning he got up and claimed that he is unable to stand on his legs though he has sensation in both legs . An MRI was done which shows multiple injuries and bulgings at L1-L2, L3-L4 and L4-L5 along with bordering osteophytes causing lateral and foraminal narrowing compression on nerve roots plus partial compression of D12 vertebra with altered marrow intensity. We had consulted many neurophysicians and neurosurgeons looking at the conditions of his bones they are not in favour of surgery, kindly suggest what can be done further
Sat, 1 Mar 2014
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Hi,
You have PIVD and not so symptomatic to under go any surgical intervention .

So in my opinion
Avoid bending forwards , sternous exercise, heavy weight lifting
do warm compression
take retainedb12 rich diet
analgesi muscle relaxant n ppi
liniment
regular physiotherapy


thanks n regards

hope it ll help
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Why Is My Father Unable To Stand On His Legs With Back Pain?

Hi, You have PIVD and not so symptomatic to under go any surgical intervention . So in my opinion Avoid bending forwards , sternous exercise, heavy weight lifting do warm compression take retainedb12 rich diet analgesi muscle relaxant n ppi liniment regular physiotherapy thanks n regards hope it ll help