Return to MD: If you are getting nerve symptoms from low back pain, it is important to get an MRI of the lumbar spine to see if your nerve compression is severe and will require surgery. See you gp for the MRI and for an appropriate referral to a neurosurgeon if it shows such compression.
Answered 6/10/2014
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