Let's Talk Neck Injuries

[Brandon Mccaghren]

I'm growing concerned that I may have a more serious neck injury than I've previously been willing to admit to myself. I'm experiencing numbness/tingling in my right hand and fingers. It's pretty much constant, though it is triggered more severely by sitting or standing with good posture. When I slouch, look down, or particularly when I invert on to my neck from the guard, the symptoms are relieved. From what I have read this could be a brachial plexus injury or some type of disc problem in my cervical spine. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing?

[Jack LaBarge]

Time to go in for a MRI!!!!!!

Joe Rogan & Bas Rutten are having (not the same but) similar problems. Listen to the last 15 minutes of Joe's podcast with Eddie from last week. Also the last Bas Rutten podcast with Joe. They both just did the stem cell procedure that Joe talks about in the podcast with Eddie.

I'm looking forward to hearing about Joe's results from this procedure.

I have 2 disc out which causes bad nerve pain in my right leg and I also get numbness in my right ankle. My doctors want to do surgery but I'm holding out.

[Brandon Woolsey]

Damn brotha really sounds like MRI time. That's kinda how my lower back and left leg probs started. Here is what makes this so tricky, in late 2005 I was just standing and made a small turn bam that was it. Lost all feeling in both legs and after about 2 minutes the feeling came back to my legs except for the entire back of my left leg from the asscheek to my last two outside toes. They did surgery jan 2006 and it failed. Now it's permanent nerve & muscle damage from my lower back down to my toes on the left leg. I would suggest you try as many alternatives to surgery as you can. Chiro can do a lot of good but you have to have someone that def knows what they are doing so they don't hurt you further. Don't know if this helped any but that's my story lol

[bobby rivers]

Go sharpen your ax.

[Chad Clark]

Doctor now dude, like right now.

[Tony "The Goods" Garcia]

Doctor now dude, like right now.

I'm with Chad on this brotha! Go.

[Jonathan Wylie]

Everybody is spot on here listening to bas story on JRE was pretty crazy.

[Greg W]

I always have a bad neck, this spring I was attacking a turtle position and had seat belt without hooks and the kid drilled me straight down on my head. All limbs went numb for a few minutes. I choose Chiro over regular doctor first, he fixed me up just fine, but we were worried about a fracture. I had a routine physical scheduled two weeks after injury. When I told the Doc about it and going to the Chiro, the look on her face was pure horror. Chiro did x-rays that he said might not show a small fracture and if it got any worse go get MRI right away. Doc to me I should have had MRI right away. So moral of story, go get MRI to clear neck of serious injury, then if clear, go to Chiro to fix you up!

[Phill Schwartz]

Brandon, thats interesting that it goes away when you invert. I have had some similar issues in the past and sometimes I think that it's inverting that over stretches my nerves and causes the tingling. I think this could be pinched nerve. have you visited a chiropractor? You might want to try that or a sports massage before the MRI.

[Brandon Mccaghren]

Brandon, thats interesting that it goes away when you invert. I have had some similar issues in the past and sometimes I think that it's inverting that over stretches my nerves and causes the tingling. I think this could be pinched nerve. have you visited a chiropractor? You might want to try that or a sports massage before the MRI.

Yeah, it's weird. But inverting definitely relieves the pressure. Plow stretch is another thing that feels great. But I don't know if I'm exacerbating the problem by doing these things. I should clarify that there is almost no pain at all; just a strange numb sensation.