SparkySunshine97
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Hi all,Just thought I'd share with you and interesting conversation I had with my Physio. I had an appointment this afternoon at 4.30pm. We hadn't seen each other for over a year and a half and before my first BFS episode. He asked me to talk him through my episodes with BFS, I dumped on him big time, my MRI's and EMG, my fears, tear and concerns. The continual pain in the buttocks and lower back, that I couldn't sit down for long without pain, fasics, toothache like pain in the calfs, numbness etc, etc. He listened quietly then asked me to get down to my boxers and he did an examination. First he told me to stand and face the wall. He laughed and told me my pelvis was up nearly two inches higher on the left side. He then made me lie on the consultants table and put my feet together he asked me to stop him pushing my right big toe down. I did it pretty well. He did the same holding my right foot and good resistance. He did the same on my left and my left toe collapsed as did my left foot. He then got me to lie on my left side and just pressed down on my right thigh (outside of), the pain was incredible, same on the right pain was excrutiating. He got me to lie face down and squeezed my achilles and calf muscles I broke out in a sweat at the pain. He then applied pressure to my lower back, it was painful and like a rock.He got me to lie on my back and do some Knee rolls to level my pelvis and then we sat down to chat. He told me that I had sciatic nerve damage and if I had not got the all clear from the MRI, he would of insisted on one to rule out disc pressure. He told me that both legs had significant sciatic nerve trauma and that could account for the fasics in my calfs, not only that I had achilles heel inflamation and calfs tenderness. It would certainly account for pain and parasthesia and the pins and needles. I told him that I had some fasics fire off elsewhere in the body and he said no problem, anxiety can cause that.He said we needed do two things 1) to see him to get treated for Piriformis, that I had a very bad case of it, the 2nd was to see my Doctor and get conselling for depression!!! It shook me to the core!! He told me that I was on the verge of depression the last time I saw him and 1 1/2 years later I had got worse. Before he qualified as a Physio, he was a psychiatrist with the London Metropolitan Police helping those who had suffered post traumatic stress. It was his studies into an injured mind and the power it had to cause injury to the body that made him become a physio. He told me (i've mentioned this before on this board) that a 4 year study was undertaken of people with bad backs and how to predict those that would get worse. All the volunteers had yearly MRI's in the study, by the end their conclusions were that the people who had the worst symptoms with bad backs were not the ones with the worst spines but those who had the greatest level of depression. His words "an ill mind, will manifest itself in illness in the body". I asked him why my Neurologist wouldn't have suggested something. He said that they do not study muscles and their interactions with nerves. They wouldn't know about this!Kinda hard to admit that I have depression to my Doc, but if it will help cure me then I'm up for giving it a go. Hope this may help for some of you out there. 