I recently suffered a nerve compression incident after a 3 dive day. Lost all feeling in my lower leg from the knee down for over an hour. It completely resolved itself as soon as the boat got back to shore and I stepped down in the sand. I have a history of lower back pain and degenerative disk disease (yes I'm 47 yo). I went to the doctor when I got home from the trip and she ordered an Xray and MRI. The MRI is being denied by my insurance company at the moment... something about documenting 6 weeks of conservative treatment first.
The radiology report had an interesting finding and I wondered if it has any consequence when under hyperbaric conditions. There are progressive degenerative disk changes at L4-5 which include some uniform loss in disc space, progressive marginal spurring in addition to a vacuum cleft. There are premature degenerative disc changes at L1-2 and L5-S1.
A nerve root compression at these discs would certainly correlate with where the numbness was.
I would love to hear thoughts on this.......
The radiology report had an interesting finding and I wondered if it has any consequence when under hyperbaric conditions. There are progressive degenerative disk changes at L4-5 which include some uniform loss in disc space, progressive marginal spurring in addition to a vacuum cleft. There are premature degenerative disc changes at L1-2 and L5-S1.
A nerve root compression at these discs would certainly correlate with where the numbness was.
I would love to hear thoughts on this.......