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km118
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 Posted - 08/30/2012 : 18:55:58
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I have suffered with pain for years and seem many specialists. One of them I saw was a gait specialist. They found that my right hip drops dramatically when I run and isn't supporting me. I also have a weird scissor kick with my right foot, and all the symptoms are on my right side.
Can TMS cause a weird gait, or is this one of the symptoms that has no correlation to TMS(such as tumors, cancer, etc)?
Also, can TMS cause a lack of sensation when touching or stretching a muscle? My right leg has so much much sensation when I press on it try stretch it compared to my left leg. Thank you for any help! |
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drh7900
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Posted - 08/31/2012 : 07:47:17
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I can't specifically speak to gait as I really have no idea, but I'm going to speculate a little. I would guess that your gait can be largely affected by the strength of the muscles. If the muscles and nerves are oxygen deprived (which is how TMS works), they can have less strength for sure. If the muscles around the hip are affected, I could see how this could be...but I'm not a doctor, so don't rely on my words.
As for the lack of sensation, I can definitively say from experience that TMS can cause that. My left leg had reduced sensation going down the back of it all the way from the top of my hamstrings down to my heel for a period of time. That's kind of scary especially since real nerve damage will kill the nerves and leave you numb instead of with pain, but the good news there is the lack of pain. For me, I hurt AND was numb...which I found to be contradictory. My gait was affected because my left calf could no longer bear my weight. If I tried to push myself up on just my right toes, I could do it just fine. If I tried with just the left, I flat out did not have the strength even though there was no atrophy of my muscles. If I went up on both feet and then tried to hold my weight with just my left calf, I would drop. Eventually, for me, the numbness went away and the strength came back which meant that there was no real nerve damage. Still working on getting past the rest of the pain.
Please understand, when I talk about nerve damage, I'm talking about trauma that causes real damage to the nerve. TMS (as far as I understand it) is not going to permanently damage any nerves.
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Can TMS cause a bad gait?
