christophe maya has always stayed active going jogging playing tennis going to the gym but right now he's limited to swimming and stand up paddle boarding due to back problems. at night or looking back there were personal issues it threw me off track i always tended to compensate for that with lots of exercise and work with. the combination of stress and pushing himself too hard took its toll on his back. just not worth the pain is like sticking your finger in a power socket it's a pulsating pain that always shoots down my left side right down to my toes. he was unable to work for eight weeks his orthopedist prescribed painkillers injections and physio therapy but nothing helped. eventually he was referred to. a neurosurgeon he's been in treatment here for several weeks now. the mild. promise that i. was. getting. he's doing better but he still has some pain together they look at a scan of his spine so you. see if there's. some minor slip disc you can see this is where the disk begins to bulge and presses on the nerve of good work. that's interfering with the function of the nerve an

therapy helped but christoph maya is also doing his bit going to physiotherapy and getting plenty of exercise. i'm here with dr di meo he's a doctor for sports medicine and the head of the department for health and fitness at the spot and he consented to them thanks for having me today when i see patients with lower back pain they often ask me to think head and get some x. rays or an m.r.i. scan but and when do they have to do an american is a doctor in most of the cases it's not necessarily cause lower but pain is limited and last for only a couple of days it can be severe but in most of the cases it less just for a short time but if it does not receipt after a some days or repeated after a certain time or if the doctor suspects structural change in this case is indicated to carry on for their examinations for example with. x. rays why do so many patients problems in the lower back if there's a problem that mother nature just messed up. really not but right now we are observing that about eighty percent of the patients reporting back pain have some kind of mental or social stress an