A stockport shrine worker has revealed how yoga determined his slipping disc in six weeks, after years of physiotherapy, strong painkillers and steroid injections could not solve this.
Paul Lewis was bed-bound despite the extensive medical treatment of NHS doctors on an insured disk in his spine as a result of years of manual work as a trader.
“Even putting on my socks and shoes was impossible,” he remembers. “I was bound. I couldn’t do anything. The pain became terrible. Then I asked my partner to call an ambulance to take me to the hospital.”
Lewis lived with chronic pain from his condition for two years before he was admitted to Stepping Hill Hospital. Strong painkillers and physiotherapy prescribed by doctors had done little to relieve his pain and injury.
“I was on codeine, gabapentin and oramorphic, which is liquid morphine. That was just for days. The NHS gave me physio, but it didn’t do much. When in 2016 I had a steroid injection in the bottom of my back. Things got a little better for a few months before the pain returned and I went back on medication.”
The father of two struggled for another three years without a solution for his slipping disc, which then influenced his hip nerve and caused pain in his left leg.
“Stepping Hill refused another injection, so I turned to friends for ideas,” he adds. “Everyone said to me: you have to go to yoga.”
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