For years, I brushed off the nagging discomfort that crept along my spine. I chalked it up to poor posture, age, or too much time spent at my desk. But then came the sharper jolts—those nerve-like zaps that shot down my leg whenever I stood for too long or shifted a certain way. Eventually, I…
If you’ve ever felt a strange, nagging pain in your legs while walking—only to have it vanish after a short rest—you might’ve shrugged it off as aging or just a pulled muscle. That was me a few years back. I’d walk a couple of blocks, and suddenly my calves would start to ache and feel…
When I first heard the term spinal stenosis, it sounded like some rare condition only a handful of people deal with. Turns out, I was wrong — really wrong. A few years back, I started having this weird mix of numbness and sharp pain running down my lower back into my legs. I thought it…