Spondylolisthesis
Written by ehealth on January 12th, 2009 in General.
This is a condition I hadn’t heard of before. I had been getting steadily increasing pains in my back, hips or hamstring muscles over a few months. Never all of them together, just it was either one or another. I finally decided to see my doctor as it was (painfully) obvious something just wasn’t right. He ordered xrays which I had the following day and on Saturday I went back for the results. He told me that the pain was caused from Spondylolisthesis (which apparently is a result of a stress fracture way back in my teens!) and showed me on the xray what it meant. The following two diagrams will show you what I mean.
This is a normal Spine. Notice the smooth curve?
Now this one below shows a spine with Spondylolisthesis. The disks make protrude forward or move backward. (mine is backward)
