I recently had a laminectomy, and now I am suffering from radiating pain in my thigh and below. What can I do?
Many problems can cause back pain to radiate into the thigh and below. In some cases where the surgery has been recent, patients need to make sure they have not had an infection. If the wound is clean, and has healed, the chances of that are pretty low. The most common source of this type of pain is called post-laminectomy discogenic pain. That means, in some patients the problem was not just the herniation, but the disc was also involved. That creates some type of minor or more serious instability. Patients with this problem can potentially get better with time and exercise. If your symptoms do not subside with time and and whatever exercises your doctor may have recommended, you should consider undergoing another series of tests.
