An older man with pain in the leg
One of our very fit, older, patients complained of a pain on the inner aspect of his thigh. ‘Have I pulled a muscle’? He wondered. When I examined his leg I could feel a line of ropiness on the inner thigh, that meandered around a little. It felt like a piece of rope under the […]
A 70yr old man with leg pain
Leg pain is pretty common, especially as we get older. There are lots of reasons why this can happen. In this video I discuss about one cause of leg pain that commonly happens when we are younger, but can result in us having leg pain later in life. Found out what it is in this […]
Oops! I cut the leg off – by accident!
When you have pain in the leg it can be pretty unpleasant, and recently a patient said to me that she \’wanted to cut her leg off\’… which reminded me of something that happened years ago….. What should you do if you have sciatica? What are the guidelines? In this short video (less than 2 […]
What is the best pain-killer for sciatica?
In this video Andrew discusses a new article in the BMJ this week on this topic. If you want to read the original paper click here: https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j4248…
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Is low back pain harder to fix if there is a trapped nerve as well??
A recent article in JMPT investigating outcomes of acute and chronic low back pain, found that patients with nerve problems (radiculopathy) recovered equally well with chiropractic treatment as patients without radiculopathy. The article, by Peterson et al, was investigating whether there were any positive predictive factors to suggest which patients would respond best to chiropractic […]