These short videos are grouped by symptom rather than by diagnosis, because that is usually what you know first. Find the one that sounds closest to what you are experiencing, watch a few minutes, and bring your questions to your visit.
When not to wait
Some symptoms need to be seen right away. If you have sudden weakness, numbness in both arms or both legs, loss of bladder or bowel control, or severe pain after an injury, call our office or seek emergency care rather than waiting.
(850) 400-7070A collision can strain the muscles, ligaments and discs in your neck even at low speed, and the pain often arrives a day or two later rather than straight away. These explain what tends to be injured and why it can take time to show up.
Numbness and tingling in the arm often start higher up than they are felt. When the cause is in the neck, a disc or a narrowed opening is pressing on the nerve root where it leaves the spine, and the symptom appears wherever that nerve travels. These cover what that looks like.
When not to wait
Some symptoms need to be seen right away. If you have sudden weakness, numbness in both arms or both legs, loss of bladder or bowel control, or severe pain after an injury, call our office or seek emergency care rather than waiting.
(850) 400-7070Pain that travels from the low back into the buttock, thigh or calf usually means a nerve root is being compressed where it leaves the spine. These explain what causes it, and one of the injections used to treat it.
What treatment can look like
Low back pain that lasts can come from several places — the discs, the small joints at the back of the spine, or narrowing around the nerves — and they are not treated the same way. These cover the common sources, and some of the procedures used to identify and address them.
What treatment can look like
These videos are general education, not medical advice, and cannot tell you what is causing your own symptoms. Only an examination can do that.
A video can describe a condition. Working out which one you have takes an examination — and that is what a consultation is for.