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Resting hand tremors: what helps?
Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: Jan 18, 2022 | Replies (6)Comment receiving replies
Wow, Jennifer -- I have neck disc issues as well (mine are at C5-C6). Was it your neck spine that caused jumping muscles in your leg? If so, that is fascinating because the nerves which travel down to the legs are located farther down on the back spine. I had no idea that this was possible. Thank you! (......or did I misunderstand your symptoms?)
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@martinaston You are understanding correctly. I only had spinal cord compression in my neck. The signals from the brain have to come through the neck first before they get to the nerves to the legs, so a compression (lowering) of the signal further upstream does effect things below it and you don't know exactly what will be affected. A lot of surgeons missed understanding this (but not at Mayo), and they thought I had a separate problem with my legs, but they didn't do imaging in my lumbar spine to confirm or eliminate a diagnosis. It probably seemed like a complexity they didn't want to tackle.
Here is the medical literature I found which explains this phenomenon that is called "funicular pain".
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111492/
Are you considering getting another opinion at Mayo Clinic? I wish I had come much sooner instead of wasting 2 years chasing surgeons (5 of them) that didn't want to help me. Can I answer any questions about my experience as a Mayo Clinic neurosurgery patient ?