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Back operation

  • 09-08-2013 10:57am
    #1
    mraff07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭


    Hi. Has anyone experience of having a discectemy (mine is L5S1). If so what are your experiences, and what was the recovery phase? Any athletes out there who made a full recovery to sports??
    Thanks


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  • #2
    ekevosu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 987 ✭✭✭ekevosu


    Did Paul O Connell not have one and come back for the Lions tour a few months later?

    I have the same disc problem, L5S1. I was told by a consultant to get a discectemy back around February / March. He claimed it might have been from running but it could have been a lot of things. I think he was anti-road running in a big way. At that stage I couldn't drive for more than 5 minutes without agony and a working day at my desk was a nightmare, constant standing, stretching lying on the ground. Even putting on my socks was impossible. Physio misdiagnosed it in November as a piriformis injury for a long while. Personally I tried to avoid the back surgery route and did (am still doing) a good bit of accupuncture and various things. After a lot of that, driving is fine now again and work is no problem, only issue is bending below my knee on the right hand side which is still an issue. The sharp pain is gone but I still have some pain, not sure if this is progress or simply time.

    Be good to hear how completely or otherwise people recover from the surgery or alternative method.


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