Jiu Jitsu athlete with 2 herniated discs due to impact
Hello all, I'm 29 years years old, 6'2, male, always have been active and mostly healthy.
Never had issues with my health besides some bruises and a tiny fracture on my foot many years ago.
About 5 days ago I jumped off a cliff into water and landed very harsh on my back.
The cliff wasn't extremely high but they made me wear a vest that made the impact a lot stronger.
When it happened I couldn't move my right leg and barely my right arm.
20 minutes later I could walk almost normally with a lot of pain on my back on the right side of the spine. I still have normal strength in almost my whole body but my fingers on my right hand.
I lost most of my strength there but every day I feel it getting significantly better.
I went to do an MRI and they found 2 herniated discs and the Dr (this hospital is famous for doing unnecessary surgeries) recommended surgery because my hernia is pushing into my spinal cord.
He wants to do a disectomy with fusion since he says that you can't perform a partial disectomy in the cervical.
The hernias are C5-C6 and C6-C7.
I am working on getting a better quality MRI and I'm also asking the doctors I know for their opinion.
- What are the chances that I will be able to get back to competitive Jiu Jitsu training?
- Can you really not do a partial discectomy on the cervical?
- If my symptoms are improving day by day, should I continue waiting and seeing where it goes?
My hand doesn't have full strength but is getting much better.
Here's some pictures of the MRI even though I know that this machine is not a very good one and I will need to go to a better one which I'm doing today.
Thank you!
To see all pictures and report you can go here cmc.lumier.me and both the username and password is 40225230263