@denman55 The doctors need to determine if your pain is related to your spine or if it is related to a different problem in your leg, ankle or some other disease. It could also be connected to a problem in the brain. I'm not saying that to scare you, but someone I know with leg pain as a first symptom and walking difficulty was diagnosed with brain cancer. That is where the impulse originates before the signal is sent to the leg and you take a step. If they find something on spine imaging to connect the symptoms, you'll get a diagnosis after they can study the imaging.