MRI showed "multilevel dehydrated disc disease causing central canal and lateral recess stenosis with most prominent changes ate L4-5"I am 58 years old and I contacted the medical specialist because I was having low back ache radiating to right leg. Please advise me which specialist I should approach for? I mean neurologist or orthopedic?
Hi, You may approach a neurosurgeon since it involved the nerve of the spine. If the neurological complications are there then a neurosurgeon should be consulted first. Though if the neurosurgeon is not available then consultation from the orthopaedician may also be done. Sometimes a team approach involving both is done.