I have had tight muscles around the L4 and L5 for two and a half weeks. After two visits to Physio I now have severe pain down my left leg, predominately around the knee and down both sides of the shin bone. My whole leg is very weak and when I stand the whole leg aches. Can you advise me please?
If I am your physiotherapists I would not do abdominal exercise this early and I would do simple double straight leg raising with instruction to relax and DO NOT HELP ME also knee to chest exercise message from side lying not from prone (on face) all TENS and heat application should NOT be done in prone, instead should be done in Sabine or side lying , also simple manual traction will be helpful you should take simple NSAIDs to help (like alphinturn)also I would focus on achieving posterior pelvic tilt starting by easy home exercise : stand on heels with toes up (ankle dorsiflexion) while leaning forwards for 1 min which should then ease pain Good Luck