Question
hello. my name is Allison and i was wondering if there was anyway you could help me...
about a year ago i had major migraines and numbing of one side of my body, it would start at my toes and go all the way up to my head. i was then diagnosed with a sudo tumor behind my left eye by my eye doctor. after that i had a spinal tap done to draw the fluid back down to my spine. shortly after that i started to feel pain from half-way down the back of my right thigh all the way into my right ankle. it went away about two days later, but it is a reoccurring pain. now everytime i move my leg to quick in one direction it hurts for about a week. is there anything i can do to ease the pain or stop it alltogether? all my thanks if you can answer my question... Allison

Answer
Hello, Allison,

Making an educated guess, I think your spinal tap (those are painful, aren't they?) triggered some reflexive muscular cramping in the muscles along your spine, which, compressing nerve roots, produced the pain down your leg.

Try doing the somatic exercises for back muscle contractions and back pain found in the videos at

http://somatics.com/back_pain.htm

Let me know how it goes.

regard,
Lawrence Gold

PS:  Migraines, by the way, usually come from muscular contractions at the sides of the neck.  See my write-up on headaches at

http://somatics.com/headaches.htm