Recent content by tonydisc

Do you mean by this, that since I did not have total loss of feeling or use, that by now I should have seen improvement, so something really is not right? yes I am 30 years old, and was extremely fit until the injury. I actually did have an EMG before the surgery. But I have not had a follow...

Well yeah we were concerned about the strength loss and atrophy which is why we did the surgery. I think he meant that we were hoping to see some improvement, but the fact that there was no improvement at all after a few months, might mean it was permanent. I realise that maximum recovery...

thanks for the replies. It was a neurosurgeon that did the operation, it was a posterior microdiscecomy without removing the disc or doing fusion. 1) As for strength increase, there was a small increase for a couple of weeks after the pain went away, but then it stopped dead and has stayed...

Hi, 5 months ago I herniated a disc in my Neck C5/C6, with compression on the C6 nerve root. I even had surgery to decompress at the 2 month mark. BUT, I still have weakness in my left arm. Also, a lot of atrophy in deltoid, wrist extensors, and Teres major. Has anyone else recovered from...