Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Sacramento, CA
Clicking/popping In Low Back/sacrum Posted: 01-26-06 21:34pm
I have had ddd at two levels l4/l5 &
l5/s1 for the past 3 years. Only recently
(within the last month) have I noticed
that my sacral area/lumbar spine will pop
when I hang doing pull ups or I can
manually pop myself if I get myself in the
right position to do so. I was just
wondering because i'm worried about it
being an unstable vertebrae but 2 of my
doctors think that isn't the case. There
is no tenderness in the area nor extreme
discomfort, but more so muscle pain in the
ql region. Have any of you all ever had
this? I have been receiving vax-d off and
on for the past 2 years now and my chiro
thinks it might be because i've finally
realigned my low back but due to the ddd
the facets crack/pop frequently and or the
ligaments in my low back have been
stretched and are now looser then before.
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
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disabledcoastie
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 68 Location: West Virginia
Posted: 01-28-06 16:18pm
:?: :?: total mystery to me. Hopefully
someone here will have something
constructive for you.
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Tamadrummer
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 710 Location: Zephyrhills,Fl
Posted: 01-30-06 12:22pm
It sounds as though you are doing your own
si joint manipulation. I do not know much
about vax-d other than it is a commercial
on tv all the time and the folks promoting
it call it a miracle machine that cure
back pain.
I do not know and I am not interested in
trying that thing out. I have had the
charite artificial lumbar disc implanted
at l5/s1 and as far as something like that
goes, the ligamets are streched really far
out of place to get the intervertebral
space open and accessible enough to do the
laminectomy and the arthroplasty and then
once the ligamet is released to the
original position, it is fine. I do not
believe that you can over stretch your
spinal ligamets so that they do not keep
stability of the spine.
There is a chance that the disc spaces
have become more comprimised and so there
is an instability at that point but that
is unlikly as well.
If your docs do not seem concrned and you
are not having pains that are disabling,
and you are physically fit, I would think
it is prudent to continue excersising and
maintain your strength.
