Will a fractured bone in the back ever heal?!


Question: Will a fractured bone in the back ever heal.?
I fractured a bone in my lower back in april 2007. From time to time i get really bad pains and lately has been particularly bad. Since about a week ago its been so bad when i have been out i suddenly couldn't walk anymore because my back hurt so much and feels like there is pressure going down my left leg like someone is pulling me down.

So my accident happened over a year and a half ago, i just want to know. Will my back ever heal.? Because it happened at a young age when i was 15 and i am now 17 so cos im young will it eventually heal.?Please don't give me false hope just be honest, i can take it. ThanksHealth Question & Answer


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Whether this long winded answer is helpful, I know not. However after a very long period of serious illnesses, which ended when I was eleven, I worked damn hard to regain fitness. Further to this, when I too was seventeen, I joined a local Territorial Army Para Group. I was told, during training, that I was the fittest fellow they had ever trained. Their training involved a great deal of, for the want of a better description, many stupid and idiotic stunts. During such a stunt I fell, head first for twenty feet (you may laugh here) and fractured two vertebra and broke another. The last one, a downward stabling section of my Fifth Lumber Vertebra, is now left five inches away from the natural position. I also broke the Ulna and Radial bones in both arms, which then hurt like hell and for many years after. Unbelievably, I rode home on a drop handlebar racing cycle with foot straps. I completed my training nine weeks later and was again told I was still the fittest ever. I fell out with them anyway, because I found them, with few exceptions, to be a bunch of arrogant clowns, so I left. Most of my working life I was involved in both light and heavy engineering . Fourteen years later I started with severe back pain, but not the numbness you described and went for x-rays. It was only then all the damage to my back was discovered, but not explained properly to me. The pains in my arms had smothered the pain that must have been in my back at the time of the injuries at age seventeen and now I was thirty-two. My Doctor, who had saved my life during the period of protracted illness, told me to toughen up and because there was nought to be done so late in the day. I should carry on as usual. Well, I thought I had good reason to trust him, so I carried on with my usual enthusiasm. Bizarrely, after exactly fourteen more years, I was stood on a scaffold that a prat of a bricklayer had been messing around with and it gave way. I fell from the first ledger, but stopped my fall by catching the same ledger as I dropped and so swung at arms length with my feet a short distance from the rough ground below. The irony is, if I had hit the ground I might have landed reasonably well, though I might also have compacted the narrowed disk spaces between my vertebra, because unbeknown to me the spongy disk material was almost non-existent by then between the damaged vertebra. I had, however, torn all the strong supporting muscles of my spine and all the busted bits and pieces had pulled further apart allowing the weakness of the bones to show up. I worked on, in agony at times, for a couple of months and then the numbness you describe kicked in and then severe hot burning sensations down my legs. I finally stumbled into a collapsed heap of pain. I tried to ride my motorbike to the Doctor, but when I stopped to place the weight of the machine on my right leg, my leg gave way and I have never ridden since. I was finally told, after MRI Scans and whatnot that I had come close to being paralysed and can never work again. I played merry hell with my Doctor, but it was all too late. If there is a moral to this pain filled yarn, 'ti's this, do not play the hero and be careful who you listen to and be especially careful as to who you trust. Doctors can be saints, but still get it wrong. Do not let your own wonderful youthful courage and enthusiasm be your undoing. Most of all double-check that injury and then watch out. And good luck.Health Question & Answer

Short answer: there is no way for us to know without a proper medical examination by a qualified orthopedic surgeon.
If you have not told your doctor about this, then by all means let him know as soon as possible. Something serious may still be wrong.Health Question & Answer

Your back fracture healed a long time ago. It may be the source of the pain, then again it may not be. Depending on where exactly the fracture was, if this was your tailbone, by chance- you may have an irritated sciatic nerve. That is the main nerve bundle serving the leg- and you have one for each side. You can also move wrong and pinch it as well. The pain is usually somewhat fire-like, almost as if your back pocket had been set on fire, and it radiates down the leg to nearly the knee. It will make it painful to walk, sit, lay down, whatever. A chiropractor, doctor of osteopathy (D.O., not M.D.) or a physical therapist can all probably help you feel a lot better. So can some Motrin and a hot soak in the tub, sometimes. No false hope needed, no need to dread something horrible either. Just go see the doctor dear, and get it sorted out. Your spine in fine, it's just something out of adjustment. Health Question & Answer



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