by Fusion Rehab | Nov 8, 2021 | Back Pain, Spinal Fusion
November 8, 2021 So, it’s great keeping a sort of pain diary. I suppose this public website is my pain diary. The good thing is that you can really put things in perspective. I know it was on October 5, 2021 that I first started feeling just a bit of the...
by Fusion Rehab | Nov 1, 2021 | Anatomy, Back, Back Pain, Gluteal pain, Pain, Spinal Fusion
November 1, 2021 All the hip muscles First look at this diagram.. So, before I had a lumbar fusion, it was extremely easy for me to explain why I was experiencing pain. All the imaging and analysis had been completed. I could very confidently say, “I’ve...
by Fusion Rehab | Oct 25, 2021 | Back Pain, Exercise, Gluteal pain, Spinal Fusion
Yea, so this feels like it’s been going on for a bit now. And, the pain level is definitely fading. But, there’s still enough there to get my attention and make me think about it. So, the pattern is that the inflammation arrives and lasts fr a while. And,...
by Fusion Rehab | Oct 14, 2021 | Back, Doctors, Spinal Fusion
This is another one of those questions that I have a very difficult time finding any online information or answers. And, I know that I’m not the first person to wonder: Is there a somewhat easy way to get a 2nd opinion about an X-ray? For example, I recently had...
by Fusion Rehab | Oct 14, 2021 | Back Pain, Spinal Fusion
Sparse Internet info about certain topics So, there’s a lot of information I add to this blog simply because there are topics in my life that it seems other people haven’t published much information about. And, I want to put the info into the world. I do...
by Fusion Rehab | Oct 13, 2021 | Back Pain, Exercise, Pain, Spinal Fusion
October 13, 2021 Now, that I’m 14 months into this thing…there’s a few things I realize now that I definitely didn’t know at the outset. It would have been impossible to know beforehand. I could only learn by going through the process. The...