Flexibility exercises thoracic spine
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s advice, you need to be in some sort of physical therapy to strenghten and improve flexibility of muscles related to your spine. Also, if your accident was fairly recent, you need to rest a lot, so not being able to get out of bed is your body trying to tell you something. You also need to be on some sort of medicine, either pain killers or antispasmodics, to help control the discomfort you are experiencing in your back, since the shots are not enough.
The way to ease pain quicker is to eventually get into physical therapy for a few sessions, and then you keep up with the exercises they teach you to improve flexibility and strength in the operation area, thus preventing unnecessary discomfort. In the meantime, you could probably use some massages a few times a week to help those muscles, plus heat helps pain, too.
I went to the doctor to get a referral to a spine specialist, and they suggested that I try physical therapy first. I have gone 4 times so far, and it is going well! The physical therapist said that besides a bulging disc I'm extremely hypermobile and weak in the neck with a very stiff thoracic region. She said the arm pain was definitely being caused by the lowest of my cervical discs, rather than a thoracic disc.
MRI of the thoracic spine was performed using routine MRI
protocol.
Findings: The alignment of the thoracic spine is intact. There is normal
bone marrow signal demonstrated throughout the thoracic spine. No
abnormal soft tissue masses. Disc desiccation and mild disc space height
loss at T7-8, with associated left paracentral disc protrusion and
annular tear which abuts the ventral cord. No foraminal narrowing. No
significant facet arthropathy. The cord is normal in caliber and signal.
An MRI showed I had several herniated discs and impinged nerves in my C spine, and thoracic spine. I am now getting severe stabbing pinching pains in my thoracic spine. It is also very uncomfortable for me to rest my back against anything hard, like a wooden chair back. This causes a lot of pain in the thoracic spine. When I get the pinching pain my fingers also become hot and tingly.
Stretching the front and back or your leg to increase the flexibility in your knee. Perform stretching exercises at the end of your workout when your muscles are warm. Stretch the front of your leg in a standing position by bending your knee and raising your foot up toward your backside. Grasp the ankle with your hand to enhance the stretch. Stretch the back of your legs in a seated position with your legs extended on the floor. Fold forward over your straight legs to stretch your hamstrings.
For example, if you have the collapsed disks in your lumbar spine, you should strengthen your tummy muscles. Me, I have a similar problem from a car wreck in my thoracic spine, and I have to pull my arms back and squeeze the muscles between the shoulder blades. But there are a variety of exercises you can be taught to do by the PT people to help your back stabilize.
I have been to a spinal PT and I temporarily felt better but not much. He focused only on my spine and said my movement was very limited for a 27 year old. I had an X-ray taken in December that my Internal Med. Physician initially said revealed dehydrated discs around the S1 area but later said they looked fine. I have been doing yoga 3-5 times a week the past 1.5 months and been to a stretch therapist 5-6 times the past three weeks but the problem persists.
Also, to help stabilize your spine, the physical therapy you had a year ago should have been designed to strengthen the muscles that support the area of injury. I have an old injury in the thoracic spine, and I still do my exercises, which include pulling the shoulder blades together tightly, which are the ones that support the thoracic vertebrae, but I don't know what the exercises are for the cervical spine.
Generally speaking, thoracic disc herniations are "treated" conservatively. This involves rest,and rehab-type exercises to strengthen the surrounding musculature. Medical physicians commonly prescribe pain-relieving meds as well.
The difference between a disc "extrusion" and "protrusion" involves whether or not the outer part of the disc ruptures. If the material remains intact (bulging), it's a protrusion.
It says Abnormal Findings: Hypolordosis of the patients cervical spine was observed. Left spinous rotation was visualized at the T4, T5, T6, T7, and T8 vertebral levels with a right thoracic list observed. I have tried to look this up online but i am not getting very good answers and quite honestly I simply do not understand what it means.
Anyone who could help me I would truly appreciate it... i've been trying to figure out FOR SO LOOONG why i have been hurting so bad...
Well, it means you have a bulging disc in your thoracic spine, which if you have pain between your shoulder blades, that's why. They send these reports out to patients, so they'll have a copy, but the doctor who ordered the scan is the one you need to have a followup appointment with, so he can explain things to you and perhaps offer some sort of treatment plan. You are not expected to understand what it says; it's just for your records.
My neurosurgeon said to never have any kind of surgery on my thoracic spine but this is not much of a life, having to lay down most the time. Sitting in a chair for any length of time makes my stomach swell until I can't breathe, so I can only sit in a recliner. Should I try to find someplace to see if they can do anything for my thoracic spine?
I also have random stabbing pain in my spine in these areas. I frequently have to lay down to make it feel better through out the day.
I was having intense heading aches lasting for weeks, they are the only thing that got better after the injection, they are still there and just as intense but only last for a few hours hours now instead of days.
** My spine doctor has told my twice that I do not wmat to have surgery there, but I am not clear on why.
I have been fighting back pain for years, but it has gotten much worse in the past year. I have had MRI's done on the lumbar and thoracic sections of my spine. MRI shows slightly buldging disc at L4-L5 and X-ray says L5 is a transitional vertebral body, whatever that means. MRI of thoracic shows Shmorl's nodes throughout the thoracic region and a X-ray I just had for another reason said there is mild anterior compression of T10 through T12 and that they are old.
mild scoiloisis of mid thoracic spine concave to right, spondylotic changes shown slight narrowing of disc spaces, marginal osteophyte formation
Lumbar spine; loss normal lordosis, scoilosis of lumbars spine concave to right, spondylotic changes marked narrowing of L2/L3 and L5/S1 dis spaces and lesser exten other dis spaces.
But I also have pain that goes from the top of my shoulder, down each side of the spine to my lumbar spine. I don't want to sound like a hypochondriac, but maybe the pain is so bad from the muscle spasms that I don't notice any pain in my spine.
Am I silly to think that these hemangiomas might be causing my back pain?
Take food items that strengthen your body, stretching and flexibility exercises are good for the purpose.
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