5 Signs of a Pinched Nerve in the Lower Back
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- Опубліковано 15 кві 2023
- In this video I talk about 5 Signs of a Pinched Nerve in the Lower Back. I will show you what a normal lumbar spine looks like and I talk about the different causes of a pinched nerve in the lumbar spine. Remember, not all people who have a pinched nerve in the lower back have back pain. As a matter of fact, most people have leg pain only.
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I had a pinch nerve middle back. Did physical therapy for a few months and gave up. Straight to acupuncture and cured in 6 sessions in a month
Did you have hip weakness? Did you do surgery?
I love your content I really really appreciate you and everything you said about the pinched nerve that I have just got back from the hospital and they diagnosed me with a pinched nerve so I just want to say thank you thank you thank you and keep up the great content
This is EXACTLY what i have been experiencing over the last few days. First time in my life I've had this. Welcome to my 40's.... great.
Could be worse. I am turning 30 tomorrow and I have arthritis in my lower back. Working construction has really payed off for me 😒
I’m only 25 had it a few times already… 😢
I’m only 17 and I’ve been having it for just under a year. I remember waking up with pain but it wasn’t until I made a slide tackle in soccer practice when a rush of excruciating pain filled my back and couldn’t walk without having pain and made me miss playoffs. I thought the problem would heal itself overtime but now its starting to hurt again. 🤦♂️
@@smallcock269Just minimize your activity, it'll heal by itself by time.
@@smallcock269 I'm sure your case needs a consultation with a chiropractor. that would surely resolved in just a few months just like in my situation
I had t12 L1 L2 spinal fusion in June 2019.
I'm now 33. The last two month I've had those second symptoms. I walk like hunchback. Back pain included, leg tingly on left side. As I wait to see my doctor, I am doing studying of my own. Thank you for this video.
You are welcome! Best of luck!
Very helpful!
I had severe sciatica after weeding the garden last November 2023. Shortly after had partial footdrop - left foot and numbness in front of my left leg. The pain went after three weeks but the disfunction remained but very slowly improved. I had an MRI 5th January 2024. I saw the results last week. There was a 18mm protrusion on my L4 disc. I would say that was large, but my functional walking is much better now and I only have a small numbness. In just the last week the improvement is great. I am not sure if that is the end of it, certainly hope so. Need to be extremely careful now and get a gardener maybe. I relate very well to the point about pain in the leg and not in the back - that was very true for me. The worst and most scary thing was the disfunctionality as I love hiking. It takes so much longer to improve than the pain.
How did you get it to improve?
thanks man - appreciate the explanation
Glad it helped!
100% correct spot on.!!!!👍🏾👍🏾
Thank you doc
Very informative
Glad you liked it Roland!
Super explanation..
Thank you!
Not sure if you would get this but cold a pinch nerve in the upper back cause your back to feel cold between and around shoulder blades. I will note my shoulder blade bone around the muscle feels tender
This was awesome thanks
I’m 23 and this is the second time it’s happened in the last 2 years
Same here smh
@@lukasmccarthy1212 have you been in a car accident before ?
Chiro and PT is the way to go, unless you need surgery. It's strange how I'll have a pinched nerve show up out of the blue every couple years and it can be down the side of my leg into the calf, or it can be where your big toe is stiff and hard to walk. I've also had it mess with my knee and hip making it harder to walk. Then again, I've had hamstring tendonitis that makes you think it's sciatica coming from a disc issue. Basically, it can be a different area of the body depending on where the pressure is located in the lumbar area. Sucks. Only way I've gotten over it quickly is the combo of chiro and PT to strengthen the core.
And it's gone for you right now?
Chiro & OT was useless to worse Dr. suspects nerve impingement and I await MRI
I have 4 pinched nerves. Had lots of X-rays to confirm it. Yet can’t do anything about it because I’m a hemophiliac! My blood doesn’t clot right. Sometimes it doesn’t clot at all and I almost died twice. Had 2 blood transfusions to save my life. Glad I’m alive but my back is getting worse and I have Osteoarthritis as well. I’m a mess lol
im 24 😕 and since last few days ... I've been experiencing mild lower back pain over the left buttock and sometimes it radiates towards leg and even toe ... also burning sensation
Sorry to hear that Ben Simons
@@MzVolcanicroxlololol
how are you now?
Same!!!! Are you better now? If so, what did you to fix it?
Did you get diagnosed? I feel the same pain as you
Thankyou for your advice I have pinched nerve in lower back but I get tingling on my right arm and hand is very sensitive especially when I touch metal objects but at same time I have arthritis in joints I am 63 yrs
The arm stuff is not related to the pinched nerve in your back.
Ever see a pinched nerve in back mimic heart pain? Particularly around where the shoulder and spine meet i think around the 5 back vertebrae
I have lifting experience last year my coaches tried to put me in a competition, and I felt something in a heavy lift, very little, the problem is that next sessions talking with them I felt that it was downgraded and continued normally when I felt a pain strong, they are still my friend but immediately left the gym as health was my primordial objective, got calmed down and never feel it, just sometimes and makes a little reflection to.a.testicle pain, I still need treatment. ¿ Sadly I'm in Mexico this type of videos are life savers a little advice ?.
I don’t remember any numbness tingling..it just feels like a horse kicked me, and docs here want to do a hip replacement….ugh. I’m protesting. I think it’s a pinch nerve. Seeing a spine doc soon. But my pain starts on my right butt area, hurts in the joint and goes down the front of my thigh. I swear I can feel my femur bone.
Update?
@@erinbeltran1820 yes!!! After over a year of pain, 3 docs saying I need a hip replacement…I got an MRI and new doc said I have nerve damage in the sacroiliac/sciatic bundle at the like last 3 vertebrae. They wanted me to come back for a shot in one of them so they would know which it was…but I did basic stretching exercises for both, sat on a heat pad, rubbed horse liniment on it, and took high dosage benfotiamine (b vitamin heals nerve sheaths) within a week..I could walk. 2 weeks later I was pain free.. didn’t even go back for the shot.
I have had lower back pain for years which is decreased with medication but recently I started feeling an acute pain on the side of my spine which prevents me to be on my feet for a prolonged period of time, like taking a walk or preparing meals. I get tingling on my right and left hand and also feel like my left thigh goes numb at times, but what bothers me the most is the very strong pain that I feel on the left side of my spine, before the pain was on the center of my lower back. Probably this is other than a pinch nerve.
So difficult to tell without seeing you
Got my pinch nerve a few years back while gyming, entirely my fault as i did not listen tp my body. Does not effect my daily life, no pain. Only acts up if i do exercises which place tension on my lower back eg. Deadlifts, barbell rows. Stopped doing these 2 exercises years ago. Decided to do deadliftes again and boom started again. Extreme sharp pain in lower back. Would have went down to my left leg but stopped exercise immediately. Will be sore for the next 2 - 3 days but then back to normal. Last time this happened my left leg gave in and i was literally crawling in pain. Got into an ice bath and helped ease the extreme pain.
Sounds just like my pain. I feel for you.😢
ok.. this is awesome.. I've been seeing a chiro for about 9 months now with this so called pinched nerve.......it helps for a short time. I'm a hot mess with my back due to RA and spinal stenosis & just reg. DDD but what gives.. THIS IS NOT going away & I have things to do. I want to get back out there and walk. I"m 67 and I have grandkids and want to be active.. So your video gives us an idea as to identifying a pinched nerve.. NOW how the heck do I get rid of it.. What do you recommend! I can't stand this sedentary life. I have to give up life with my retired girlfriends........
I got lower back pain for 8 months now it was a little less pain for 2 days but it started again until now..annoying cause I can do anything heavy and now even light task seems impossible to tacke..
Its worse cause health care is expensive
Hello, I’m glad to find this. I recently hurt myself after being on my knees and then suddenly was pushed back into a position that that was beyond my capabilities. It started with lower back pain and numbness in my left leg. Over time I began getting hip abductor pain between my pelvis and thigh which started to cause cramping in my knee. I now have numbness all the way from my inner thigh, around my knee, and down my inner calf and a portion of my ankle. I’ve been to the doctor 4 times with severe pain, pain in left hip, as well as severe cramping in my knee. I’ve taken a round of prednisone. Things that make it worse are standing, lifting my leg, not moving as well as any lifting is the worst. I got an x ray of my lower back/hips and they said it’s not broken but I knew that. I could really use some help with what to ask my doctor, how to explain it so they actually listen etc. the only thing that relieves the pain is when I lightly tie a bandana around my inner thigh. I know you can’t give medical advice but there are 2 things you have brought up that I know I have. When I walk on my tiptoes my heal drops, I can’t keep my leg held up without severe pain, it’s even hard to lift my leg up over the tub. Also my blood pressure has been extremely high for me last one I took was 201/89. In fact all my blood pressure’s have been this high since this started. I can’t seem to get my doctors to listen to me and now the numbness in mt inner leg is growing. Any suggestions because I can’t seem to explain this in a way that gets them to listen. I’ve had to stop working, can’t stand for very long it’s just a nightmare. Finally I had 1 issue where I lost my ability to hold my bladder just as I was walking to use the restroom. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I do have an ortho referral
I’m not in any means a medical advisor I’m literally 17 but I have similar issues not quite as bad at the moment and I’ve been watching the body weight warriors stretches and have been doing them for a couple weeks and that allows space and stretching for more room of the pinched nerve to become more loose and less trapped and has helped relieve pain
It is very difficult to identify what you have without a full exam but you definitely need to see an orthopedist. If you have foot weakness, it's likely you may have a pinched nerve in your back.
Hey, you need to inform your doctor about the bladder problem?? I really hope you're okay??? How are you now??
You did not mention you age however you should be under 40 because your blood pressure 201/89 is somehow unusual since the lower number is normal.
How might be the causes of chronic lower back soreness coupled with burning sensation on the back over two years?thanks
For about five years I've had random numbness down my buttocks and both legs. It used to happen seldomly but now its happening 4 or five times a day. In between this numbness I'm fine.
This happened over night on my right hip & tail bone, there's a swelling, soreness & a pull I can barely walk& it's burning down both legs today,I actually walked to the store Friday & cooked a bit Thursday, please comment
I have all those symptoms
If interested in commenting, I have very cold and numb like feeling in feet and legs from auto accident in March. Struggling to find cause and have EMG test today. Dr thinks I may have slightly crushed L4 or L5. We'll see.
Ncv shows s1 bilateral radiculopathy. Is it a lumbosacral radiculopathy? Which part of my body affected?
That was scary. How ling should one wait for it to come down naturally before seeign a dco?
What hurt the most is when the nerve fail to do a proper blood flow, its the hurt that will make you uncomfortable in any position.
You can’t even sleep
I've had this issue where, I am in no pain at all, but I can't lift my legs without picking them up with my hands, so can't put on shoes when seated, can't wash under either of my feet without picking them up, etc, etc. I was told by docs looking at at MRI that I do have a herniated disk, but they don't see ANY reason as to why I have this issue. Does this make sense to you? If I do have some compress nerves caused by the herniated disk, BUT I am in no pain what so ever, do you think it's something else or the Herniated disk compressing the nerves? If so, is it something that can be fixed?
Could cold feets on sitting position be a synthom? I am struggling since a year (this is affecting my life already ) to know what’s the root cause several doctors had me checked and nothing 🥴 I’m getting myself to the conclusion is a pinched nerve in the back.. thanks for the good video
Thanks for this. I have weakness that comes and goes in both legs. I'm fine most of the time but then my buttocks go numb and my legs start to give out on me. This only lasts for a few minutes and then may not recur for weeks
Please go to chiropractor. It will become more frequent over time. Let's get that checked out:). Chiropractors really change lives, if you're not familiar.
Whats the best way to treat the numbness and tingling?
Thank you my spine is always stiff and my right side alaays hurts in the lower right back area . Always feels tender and painful . Pins and needles goes down outside my leg
You are welcome! I hope you feel better soon.
i been gettin pinched nerve since i was like 15 or 16 , and now im 36 now and still get pinched nerve
im 14 and it stops me from playing basketball with my friends
why does god give us his toughest battles?
I have the numbness and I had an mri and they said I had bilateral neuropathy from a pinched nerve
Can a chiropractor help. I'm dealing with an extreme case of this. Excruciating pain and numbness in my left leg and back. Can't sleep on my left side and back. Has to sleep on my left side and even that's not helping. PLEASE HELP ME
Yes, you need to see a chiropractor not a physiotherapist
I don’t have any back pain or anything, but when I get into a back bend in a certain way or bend my back backwards it starts to tingle and go down my legs and I’m too scared to be in that position too long because I think my legs would go paralyzed but I don’t know what would happen. Its in my very low back and I tried popping my back and doing stretches but nothing works. I thought everyone’s back did this but no they don’t. I may ask my doctor but that’s in a few months and I really need and answer cause I don’t know what’s wrong with my back if there’s any. I’m only 13 so I don’t know what could be going on..
Do you have any clips on how to stretch muscles and open up the cervical neck area to get rid of pain and headaches? thanks so much. My muscles in the neck area are all sore and very tight.
Funny you ask. I am planning on doing one soon!
thx @@OrthoEvalPal
What to do when pain goes down leg and numbness while walking and sleeping
Yesterday it was crazy. I wasn’t doing anything specific. I literally was standing in the kitchen, and then turned to my left to speak to my daughter. When all of a sudden I felt like what the only way I can describe as an electric shock in my lower back, it literally took my breath away, I couldn’t stand up straight in pain was awful. I ended up not going to work this morning and the pain is still in my lower back. The pain sits at the top of the start of my ass. Has anyone experienced this? It’s awful.
Doctor but what would you think of the following: terrible pain that comes when doing some squatting position but happens not frequently with certain movements, months or years can pass and not activated but just one of these "bad" movements and the pain comes for days until it's back to normal. What can that be?
What can that be?
MRI doesn't show a herniated disc in my back, but I still have all the symptoms, radiating from my left buttox, down my left leg and into my foot and toes. It's been like this 24/7 for about 7 months straight and has gotten worse over time. What else can it be because I don't have any discs pushing against any nerves.
Do you know why there might be very acute debilitating pain in the back behind the belly button when hinging forward
Probably abdominal issue. See a PCP
It's aching on both sides & I can barely walk,a pinch is on my right side & that's really never happened before I can barely lift my right leg & my bad side is the left, someone please comment what to do on this video
Need captions, please
I had a discectomy at L4L5 in 2017, re-ruptured in 2020 had fusion L4L5, had a revision in April 2023 which seems better but I have had a stabbing type pain in my lower back on the right side actually lower than the scar of the L4L5 original and fusion and feel like its a nerve or disc pushing on the nerve that has never been addressed. Would an MRI be able to tell a surgeon what is going on if I can pinpoint that exact area, feels like something it caught almost? I wanted the surgeon to fuse L5S1 when he did the revision but he would not. My original MRI in 2017 showed some disc bulging in that area. Stretching makes it worse, twisting and bending as well. I also get pain in my right foot that swells on the bottom between my middle toes. 20 days post revision I was getting bad right hip and leg pain all the way to those toes. Luckily a medrol pack stopped the leg pain but I feel no where near 100% when doing anything slightly physical. Any ideas.
So many things to evaluate before making a suggestion about your situation. An MRI could help and an injection could be diagnostic.
@@OrthoEvalPal Funny you mention injection. I had an injection of Lidocaine in L5/S1 by the same surgeon and even have a video of me doing some light PT on the floor the day before and the day of the injection. I felt 80% better after the injection and assumed he would say OK that tells me it is L5/S1 but he didn't. He just said well maybe some of the lidocaine worked it's way into L4/L5? He did say the injection would only last about 6 hours and I think it wore off around 5 hours. studio.ua-cam.com/users/videosha33g5qV6M/edit
Wonderful presentation. Too bad about the volume.
I don't have a pinch nerve in my lower back. My lower back hurt down to my butt to the point where I can walk very far.
I can’t get anyone to do something. Pinched nerve with pain but spasm pain is unbareable in AM. INow back injured too and cannot stand. I fear permanent danage due to lack of medical help. 7 days IN
I'm only okay if I bend,omg it's too cold to go to the E.R.
Can fascia pinch nerves in the lower back or elsewhere down the nerve paths?
Yes - superficial ones
@@mengemulu99 superficial nerves?
I was in a car wreck 2wks ago and I have a chronic condition and was doing great until the wreck. I have nerve pain down my legs, left arm and left jaw and some in right arm and face, neck. I cannot get a mri until PT is complete. I've been in pain and feel nerve basically all over my body. Idk... what this is?
This is what i have since Nov. I cant walk that long..numb toes, pain butt ,calf, thight behind knee to the T
I have the same. Toes, feet, butt etc… doctor said L5/S1 spondilolisthesis. How are you now?
@@ekitt7629 i have severe nerve impingement. 4 herniated discs. They did a stand up mri of my lumbar spine. Thank you for asking. I will be seeing a Neuro surgeon Sept 7th i think. There is one stretching exercise that seems to relieve the pain Thank God. I hope your feeling well. Also big toe and toe next to it are numb still and can't lift that foot up
Yeah how are you now I could use advice, I’m a year of pain every day hard to walk numb thighs sharp shooting pain, I try everything from yoga, chrio, Ice heat, taking walks,new bed, less work driving (so less sitting) pills, thc, I’m so lost in what to do besides surgery 😢
@@user-wb7tj5gf8m hey there , have you had a mri? If not do the mri of the lumber spine. The areas you have pain are from nerves. Let me know. I can even explain a very simple stretch that will take the pain away. I need to know about the MRI, which leg,hip,calf,numb first 2 toes etc.
@@user-wb7tj5gf8m there is one stretch i can show you or explain to you that should help right away. Let me know the symptoms you are having at this moment in time ok
Could a pinched nerve cause a burning sensation in the sole of both feet at once?
Have this going on at 22
Is it permanent
There's a small knot like it's fractured or sprained in my back
Howdy. I do not have a history of neck injury. I am 51, healthy and fit. I was cleaning my wood boiler 4 days ago and it requires stooping down on the ground and putting one hand upward as I pull downwards with the other hand, all while kneeling on my knees and turning my head to look upwards and downwards continously.
The next morning I felt a medium range discomfort in my left shoulder and neck. Here it is 4 days later with nearly the same discomfort. It is good at night until I've been laying down for more than 7 hours, then after I rise it worsens over a couple of hours of standing to do light household work.
It gets so stiff where I can't look downwards more than 50% of usual motion, and 100% upward too, left, and right. When I do neck traction for 15 to 20 minutes with a towel, hanging upside down, or laying on my back level, it gets much better. Also dead hanging makes it better too. Then it returns. I have to repeat this throughout the day.
It hurts in the middle of my neck, at the shoulder level, and sometimes across my left shoulder and upper arm, to look all the way down or up, and to look left, to stand for more than 45 minutes, etc.
This must be a pinched nerve, correct? Since it retreats when I do the traction. Thank you!
Yes, I would be highly suspicious of a pinched nerve in the neck. Tuesday's podcast will be about shoulder blade pain from a pinched nerve in the neck.
Yes talk to your primary care provider so they can ignore your concerns and blame everything on menopause. Like….everything. Go in with your head on fire? Menopause. Is your arm broken: menopause. Suicidal? Menopause. 🙄
It may be true. Maybe consider HRT? Low estrogen can cause a lot of those things. I'm scheduled to go see a provider that specializes in menopause. Going to get hormones checked and come up with a plan of action. Good luck!
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It sting in back of my knees
Pinch nerve can be detected on CT scan and MRI
I done CT scan show bulge disc on 3/4 4/5 and new one on L5s1 bending bring the pain up straightway down right leg
Lot lower back pain
Send letter to hospitals wait for an appointment I may go for an injection for the time been
I need to take opioid anti inflammatory walk ok get weakness on my both legs the right more
Is MRI or CT scan safe? I'm told of its dangerous radiations,making me fear to go for my right lower back pain checkup....kindly when was your last MRI?
Hello, I am 24 years old. I do not know where the injury in my back came from. I have a moving tingling sensation between my right and left legs. I have been like this since 2020. I cannot recover from this injury only with a pain reliever (Voltaren). I am now lying in bed on my left side because my leg My right thigh hurts and I cannot walk. I am tired of this matter. I want a solution, please. I have committed to physical therapy, exercises and medications, but it does not work. I can bend my feet forward and backward and move my toes. I have no problem with them. The issue is the tingling and pain that afflicts me during movement. It is truly unbearable.😢💔💔💔
Go to a chiropractor they can help
👍👍👍Thank you
Thank you Pete!
Is it normal that I feel the pain in both legs? I feel it more in my left leg but I also feel it in mine right leg
You can but very unlikely that you would pinch a nerve on both sides at the same level
weird because my doctor told me i have a pinched nerv
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I have the same thing right now
its strange, i still have it but not at the same level as i had when i first commented on the video, i still to this day dont have an answer to what this is.@@lemir3559
@@lemir3559I have pain in both legs especially my right leg and lower back pain now on the right side of back.
I started having lower left back pain. Then it migrated into my hip. It feels extremely SORE and sharp pains between hip bone and back left bony prominence. ***Today the pain started going UP MY FLANK??? what is happening?
I’d rather give birth to my kids again. This is awful.
It in the back of my legs
And from Heels to under my feet also numerous of my last to toes
L2 thru L4 have anything to do with this?
Yes it could
That speaker isn't working through it away
Unmute your computer or phone. I just checked it. It's fine
I have lumbar stenosis and herniated disc, degenerative disc disease and the vertical shmorel node things.. I had a failed surgery, 2 years later a car accident, the pain is now severe in the spine, not really back pain but core pain, trying to hold a plank makes me butt area ache to the point I can’t hold it. So painful. I get 3 10mg oxycodone a day, it’s not much. Need more. They won’t give more, and I get urine tested for pot.. I’m prescribed adhd meds but they don’t even work, like the generic brand are selling sugar pills, others agree. The healthcare system is so garbage. I hate this.
your volume is low, please increase volume during editing
Thank you for the feedback Zubair.
No it's not your phone sucks 😂
@@anymeans82 I am a video editor, dont play smart boy
Hey guys need some help can’t figure out what it is I have a pain in my upper left back almost by spine and It’s painful when I turn my head to right only or when I look down aswell
About 6 months ago I started getting this weird feeling in my lower back almost like pulling a rubber band tight and after standing for like 5 minutes I experience fatigue and have to lean on something or sit down but the long I stand straight up the worse it gets and starts feeling like a burning sensation. Anyone have any thoughts on what this could be? It makes my job extremely difficult at work and I have to sit down a lot!
This could go in many different ways. You definitely need an evaluation to sort this out. Everyone is so different.
i have it rn 😣 it hurts so bad
Can be terrible pain