How to receive speedy medical opinion from our eminent medical consultants?

1. Write to us your name and  contact
address details.

2. What are your main complains?

3. Your current diagnosis or condition. If known, then, send by email or by UPS / DHL / FedEx courier original reports or copy of recent clinical observations / diagnosis / medical report translated into English.

4. Do you have results from tests or
investigations at other hospitals that
you can share with us?

5. Do you have pain in the lower back?

6. Does the pain radiate down the leg &
if so which leg?

7. How long do you have this pain?

8. What aggravates your pain - by
bending, lifting heavy objects,
coughing, sneezing etc.?

9. Does this pain get relieved by lying in
bed or at rest?

10. Are you diabetic?

11. Do you have any cardiac history?

12. What is your age?

13. Has the patient got any difficulty in passing urine?
Myelopathy

Myelopathy is a term that means that there is something wrong with the spinal cord itself. This disease is very different from the radiculopathy that is caused by isolated points of pressure on individual nerve roots. This process does not commonly occur with low back pain because the spinal cord itself ends at about the level of the first and second lumbar vertebral body. From this point on, only nerve roots occupy the spinal canal. However, in certain situations where there is extensive arthritis and stenosis in the upper parts of the lumbar spine, or elsewhere in the cervical and thoracic spine, a patient may develop myelopathy as a result of compression of the spinal cord. This disease is often first detected as difficulty walking due to generalized weakness or problems with balance and coordination.

Myelopathy is most commonly caused by spinal stenosis, which is a progressive narrowing of the spinal canal. In the later stages of spinal degeneration, bone spurs and arthritic changes make the space available for the spinal cord within the spinal canal much smaller. The bone spurs may begin to press on the spinal cord and the nerve roots, and that pressure starts to interfere with how the nerves function normally.

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