Why Does Walking Make My Legs Ache? ; Ask the Doctor Every Week Dr Martin Scurr, a Top Gp, Answers Your Questions [Scot Region]
Daily Mail › February 10, 2009
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I AM 94 years old and in reasonable health, but suffer terrible pains in my legs -- I can hardly walk. My doctor says my back is the problem -- I have spondylitis -- and the only treatment is painkillers. Have you any other suggestions, as the pills cause me endless problems with sickness and side-effects? Albert Hazell, Wolverhampton.
WHAT joy it is for myself and readers to hear from a man who is in reasonable health at the age of 94. But I'm sorry to hear you are in such pain. My feeling is that the problem is not the spondylitis - - more of that in a minute -- but irritation of the nerves in your spinal canal.See the full content of this document
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Why Does Walking Make My Legs Ache? ; Ask the Doctor Every Week Dr Martin Scurr, a Top Gp, Answers Your Questions [Scot Region]
Your spine is made up of bones called vertebrae -- down the middle of these there is a space called the spinal canal. Down the middle of the spinal canal runs the spinal cord -- the nerve 'highway' -- which connects from the brain all the way down your body.
The part of ...See the full content of this document
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