Dr. Ebraheim’s educational animated video describes neurological examination of the lumbar spine nerve roots. To join the membership of the channel click on the link below / @nabilebraheim
Your videos are absolutely fantastic. I am 1 week out of a L4 far lateral foraminal and extraforaminal discectomy. I learned so much over the past 6 month form your videos. Thank you!
Thank-you for posting this video! Well done! I was diagnosed with 6 points of herniated discs from T12 to L1-S1, about 10 months ago. I have been doing PT exercises to stretch and mobilize these discs; but with only limited improvements. Am waiting to get the money I need to pay for professional decompression sessions; which have been shown to be 97% effective in pain and movement relief. Your explanations of the various side effects of pinched nerve roots in the various disc locations are SPOT ON, in explaining why I feel pain, neuropathy, or impaired muscle strength down each of my legs. I have a constant sense of lack of feeling to both feet, and little feeling in my right foot. The effects are reduced when I practice my physical therapy exercises and take 2-3000mg of potassium citrate powder a day; a crucial mineral that I had been lacking for muscle contraction and nerve signaling and integrity. I also notice weakened thigh and calf muscles from time to time, and now understand why!
Yes, I bought and used an incline table for several years, back in 2009 to about 2012 or so. But I started getting dizzy in the head alot so I got rid of it. During that time it was soooo relaxing and therapeutic.@@gabesoto5126
Thank You Fr.Nabi. I am 72 years old. I have burning foot sensation. this vedio helps me to understand the functions of refluxes coordinating the motor, , L1,2,3,4,5 right up to the foot metve ending nerve cells. From Chennai
I am physio myself but your video is simple and to the point to understand the pathology of lower back , you are very good please keep doing so for people and professional
😀Excellent video for understanding lumber disc, stenosis and associated problems. Great video. Looking forward to seeing more informative videos from you Dr. Ebraheim. Thanks
Many thanks, I've been looking for "where is the sciatic nerve in the foot" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Fenulian Prefatory Future - (do a search on google ) ? It is an awesome exclusive guide for discovering how to expose the trick to beat down your sciatica back pain problems minus the hard work. Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my colleague got cool results with it.
Sir I have undergone in area : L5-S1 endoscopy due to disc herniation. Today I came to know why I was having sensation issue. Really appreciated for posting such a wonderful video
As a bodywork trauma therapist, this is an extremely helpful and exquisitely clear video I can use myself and refer to my clients. Thank you so very much!
I'm glad your thinking this way! I'm on here because i have wayyy more questions than Answers😔 Had a targeted sacrolatic joint injection 5 day's ago I'm in sooo much pain i also have multiple defects in the spine and L5 blown and other's the Inflammation spred into my pelvis crushing my S1 on the right side with little information in my opinion like my ortho but this is needed!
This perfectly matches my experience. According to MRI I have S-1 nerve impacted by 9 mm extruded fragment from L5-S1 disc, and the pain is exactly in the outer part of the foot (the pinky/smallest toe) as Dr. Nabeel said. Excellent job. It makes me feel good about the MRI people. I didn't spend money for nothing. At least I know exactly where the problem is...
I broke my left ankle almost a year after I fractured my L2,L3,L4 Trans. process. On my left side. Just by simply walking. The sidewalk was uneven and it just gave out on me. Doctors couldn’t really tell me why but now this makes a lot more sense as to how. Thank you 🤙🏽🤙🏽
Thank you doctor for the last eight months I have had knee pain into the foot and now I have a sprained or strained back and by watching your video I realized that it's all connected to each other so I will seek help from back doctor I believe
This video is spot on. After 4 back surgeries resulting in a L4-S1 fusion, I had minimal big toe flexion. After surgery, I got about 50% back. My foot drop still lingers. Pain was in my shin and lateral gluteal muscle. Had a 2 inch piece of disc removed. Haven’t regretted a fusion. Improved my life.
There is more than the disc involved. The macanics that make up the vetebra have moving parts that move in certain direction. The vertebra as a whole slides up and down lest you twist right left also helps with weight baring of your body skeleton wise. When you have herniated one of the lower lumbar discs, you will feel different pains at different places along your lower lumba
This is really informative. 4 days ago, i suffered a big pain after i bend down. I did EMG test, and the result is my lumbar Nerve L4 and L5 is decreasing work. So pain when i sit and and walk. Doctor gave 3 times of injection on my right shoulder and one injection on my left shoulder and some medicine. Today i feel more better, but when i lay down or sit for more than 15 minutes, there's some pain running through the area L4 and L5 area. There's some symptoms that i dont recognize, that i often tingling on my right ring finger toe before. When i watch this video, i know that my L5 nerve actually not working normal. I hope that i can recover well soon.
I am learning so much from your presentations, thank you very much. This information is helping me, the patient, to find a "beginning" point to the chronic pain and weakness I have lived with since an injury in 1991. My MD will benefit from this, as will I.
You can handle it yourself. That's how we apply acupressure. You go to the leg and identify the living point where it hurts the most. Find which leg hurts the most at the same location. apply rotational pressure 7 x. It should hurt a lot. Otherwise it is not the right place . Do 3 times a day. Plus try the daily qi gong 8 exercises that will stretch the spinal cord in 8 different directions. Simple 20 minute exercise. Actually the cobra position in yoga if you breathe slowly and hold properly will take care of the spinal problems.
I had a 12mm protrusion on my L5-S1, as shown by an MRI. It started as pain in my distal right thigh. McKenzie exercises and physical therapy moved the pain out of my leg and into my lower central back. Continued McKenzie exercises pretty much eliminated the pain. I do have days where it bothers me and still get some slight pain on the top of my right foot and my right little toe, but I do believe the exercises saved me and the disc was mostly reabsorbed by my body.
Absolutely the same situation with me... I am glad that I can walk now, because 7 months earlier that was almost impossible. The exersices and phisio teraphy move my pain in the lower back. I hope to be fully healed in the future. Good luck to all of us on this path! :)
Hello, just want to ask you that you you recover from this pain.. Actually I am suffering from same problem and doctor asked to operate.. Kindly suggest
Dr ,as much I'm scared of your videos yet I deeply appreciate you for such a detailed explanation. Thank you you are a savior .without these videos I would not the confidence that I can regain my balance or any small hope of regaining my leg from that unexplainable pain from big inflammation of my lower back that led to a foot drop.TRULY THANK YOU SIR.
Dr. Nabil, very thorough explanation of the lumbar nerve root affects to the body. I experience occassional saddle anesthesia and other conditions you describe. I have L5 -S1 moderate stenosis as well as at L2-L3 , T9 -T10, and C3 to C7, also diagnosed with facet joint arthritis throughout many areas of the spine including scoliosis with chronic pain and stiffness. 6 Surgical opinions from spinal and neuro surgeons all indicated No Surgery . Highly acclaimed neuro surgeon, Paul McCormick at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, said " no one will touch your lumbar spine....... I would have to rebuild the entire lumbar spine" ! I try stretches, and light exercise with recline bike, and light weights. I'm 68 years old, after results of a right femur fracture at 15, the right leg is just over an inch short. The growth plate in the femur wasnt reattached and the left leg grew and the right leg did not duriing the 4 to 5 months healing process ( 1st 6 weeks of traction in the hospital, the 3 months in a full body cast). After some 15 to 18 years no real affects except for slight limp when i was tired. Then the back pain and stiffness began . The past 15 years have just been progressively worse. The cervical spine also affected to a great extent. The poor posture , uneven hips, scoliosis twisting the soi e ha e wreaked havoc with my well being. As in your vid prexentation, reflexes are either very poor or nonexistent. Neurologist says I suffer from peripheral nerve damage from the spinal issues. I am a very anxious person, and trapped in the chronic pain / anxiety syndrome, each factor contributing to the other. I am taking every anti inflammation supplement known to mankind including CBD oil, boswellia, bromelain,turmeric, ginger, skullcap, flaxssed oil, proelytic enzymes, 20 mg Prozac, Babapentin , and occassional Advil or Alleve, and until COVID hit, seeing a neural psychologist as well as a Pain Management doctor. Im babbling.....sorry to all, but spinal health AFFECTS YOUR ENTIRE WELL BEING !!!
@@bekabeka71 Sorry for getting back to you so late. I just reviewed this video again. Feeling about the same , some days OK, others not so. I'm 71 now. I battle the effects of spinal issues. Spondylosis in the spine with facet joints lined with arthritis too, DDD, and various disc bulges all he way to C1 . As I mentioned -m there is No Surgery for my ailments. So it's just Pain Management doctor visits. But doesn't help because only thing offered are trigger point injections in he Trap muscles. What this video and others fail to emphasize is the Effects to your Central Nervous System (CNS) and the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) [ sensory nerves of feeling and touching, etc.]. I have peripheral nerve damages, No Relexes, and extreme sensitivity to Temperature or touching (if I take off my shirt, at times , that action can stimulate "chills". The Nerves are all over-sensitized. I have started to add Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) which is stated can possibly heal the Mylar coverings 0f the nerve fibers. Currently, the only thing that helps is taking Advil (2 or 3 , sometimes Advil Cold & Sinus). With Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD) - my back spinal disc are very Thin. And I have Dextroscoliosis at 25 Degrees. I've been to 6 different Chiropractors over the past 10 years... 1 who was gentle and helping with dealing with the discomfort - retired. The nest guy, hurt my neck to the extent that my Pain Managment doctor tolm me and him No Neck adjustments - could make me Worse. There are No cures for these maladies - just have to deal with them. One other point: In 2018, I found and visited a Neurologist , 52 years in Neurological Practice and a Dept Chief at Montefiore / Albert Einstein Medical Center in New Rochelle NY. He told me that the disc bulges at L2 and L3 - Bulge to the front into the stomach AND into the spinal canal in the back. That could affect your stomach. I think it does with stomach Bloating , IBS and periodic GERD. My GI dr. said no way could a Disc Bulge affect your stomach. Hope you are OK and working thru your Back Issues.
This would give us an idea for any painful we have been suffering .It helps a lot for us to identify the pain in our body..Thank you for uploading this kind of video.
Who is us? I think you mean by us: the people whit pain. Besides that what have you learned if i may ask, now you understand. I think you dont understand the bigger picture. So what will be the meaning to understand it.
Very useful video, I needed to understand this as at my age, my feet are starting to go numb. Understanding this video will help me to work out the best exercises to address this problem, Gratsie.
Natasha Doroshevych It is…..if Steve’s feet are starting to go numb, at the same time, that information should be addressed differently. This video is about testing the electrical circuits of spinal nerves. Not to be confused with metabolic syndromes, like type 2 diabetes. “”Usually”” electrical problems associated with spinal nerves are asymmetrical, one side of the body.
Hi Natasha, what I go after is tracking down the details so I understand what is happening. Mine is symetrical so it does not immediately come from my lower spine. My GP says its a common factor with age and in my case a nerve pinch just below my knees. If I ignored it and just sat around doing nothing, I would end up immobilised so instead I chase up exercises that keep me mobile. No diabetes, cholesterol level at 4.00 and very healthy, only bones tell me my age.
what a great video with inspiration! this is the best!! I am studying with all your videos. thanks a lot!!! you have a great talent for teaching and you shared it with everyone!!
I'm on my 4th failed surgey never had someone one explain it as simple and detailed where I could understand maybe if these dr I've been to would have been like you maybe I wouldn't be in the position I'm in can't get out of bed thank you
Muchas gracias por la explicación .... Sufrí muchos años de espondilolistesis entre L5 y S1: me operaron y me pusieron una fijación que me solucionó ese problema ... ahora después de cuatro años de la cirugía tengo otro problelma, no puedo pararme en punta de pies y no puedo caminar normal ni correr .... Gracias a este video entiendo mi problema es el S1 ... Gracias.... No tengo dolor, nunca tuve dolor.
Padezco lo mismo, aunque me hice cirujía L5S1, aún tengo secuelas, sigo sin caminar bien y de correr menos, aunado a eso también perdí erección, estoy triste, saludos.
Finally Doc ..i can find out myself where the problem lies ...... until now no specialist of chiropractor told me during 1 year of therapy ... ! Thanks soo much. Stimulation of blood to the spine by means of FAR infra red mat (since COVID-19)..and things go better ....., and perhaps the fasting does help also ! This is for all those who read it.
FAR infra red mat and fasting???? How would this help. I am suffering with my whole right leg. Every thing said on the video relates to me. Would these help ease my pain?
I need help. I am in some serious pain everyday with my calves. Always got to roll them w/ roller. Pain meds don't really do that much and exercise makes it worse
Thank you ! . Is far red heat and or dual massager good? Did it on my upper thigh hip , bc limping a little and helped some. .chiropractor only uses that Thera gun ?!after year getting worse . . Is intermittent fasting ok , such as eating one daily meal and 2 good protein shakes? Ty.
Thank you very much for the explanation. Now I can understand what is my pain at the right side of my leg, is related to my L5. I can't walk for long without that excruciating pain and I have to stop walk. Always I thought was sciatic. I have problems with my L5, L4, and L3. One doctor recommends surgery, the other said is better if I do not make any surgery and keep taking pain pills. So I am really afraid of surgery. So... I go very slow on walk. Thank you again for your explanation, helped me a lot.
