KST A to Z
Lower back pain and leg pain
William (Sandy) Watt, DC
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
I got a new patient yesterday with low back pain 10/10 and left leg pain 10/10. She has had a surgical consult, physiotherapy, rehab testing, etc. No improvement for months; in fact, she is getting worse. Couldn't walk at all on two different occasions.
On exam, she couldn't externally rotate the left hip, and her piriformis was tight. Pubic was subluxated and so was the innominate. I adjusted her.
Today her low back is at 2/10 and her leg 0/10. When I did the report of findings and told her that her problem was in her hip joint, she replied that she knew that and had been telling everybody that since the start.
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