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A member asked:
A few months ago i suffered a l3 transverse process fracture and have been having a stinging pain in my butt ever since. what is this and treatment?
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See below: You could have sustained nerve damage. Treatment is usually a local injection or surgery.
Answered 2/19/2013
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Transverseprocess Fx: A transverse process fracture typically does not cause buttock pain. It mgiht be due to some soft tissue injury adjacent to it, or there might be something else... An MRI could exclude an occult disc herniation or other problem....
Answered 10/16/2017
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