In response to Amnesia who said....So you have seen a variety of specialists, had a variety of scans, seen doctors with many many years of experience, and then turn to slowtwitch to diagnose your problem?
Sorry, but that is not the way good medicine works.
As an MD you are asking for trouble with this approach. There are very few people here on ST that are expert enough in the potential pathology to give you decent advice that you could then take to your specialists to consider (which would be surprising if your specialists have not already considered it anyway).
You are going to get a range of responses on here which will not leave you in any better position than you are currently, but only serve to further confuse the issue and take you down rabbit holes that you don't need to go down.
I realise you are in a comparatively desperate situation, but both your hip doc and your back doc have offered you good advice. There is no panacea for what you have, these can be a diagnostic challenge and require a structured approach. My advice may sound brutal, but I have seen this far too many times.
There are lots of reason to turn to Slowtwitch. There may be many people here who have had similar experiences, varied treatments and medical practitioners. There would also be here a variety of success and failures regarding those treatments. This experience may be very helpful in creating a diagnosis that to this point has been elusive to the original poster. His specialists should be turning to Slowtwitch. That is how medicine should work.
The hip specialist referred to a pain management clinic....that means he/she has no solution. The back specialist found a bunch of stuff on imaging that could be found on people with no symptoms at all.
I have found that many times physicians and PT's are tuned into a very different population than the Slowtwitch crowd. Their interest is reducing symptoms not necessarily getting you back to the level of activity being done prior to the interruption.
There may very well be an panacea for what he has.
Sorry, but that is not the way good medicine works.
As an MD you are asking for trouble with this approach. There are very few people here on ST that are expert enough in the potential pathology to give you decent advice that you could then take to your specialists to consider (which would be surprising if your specialists have not already considered it anyway).
You are going to get a range of responses on here which will not leave you in any better position than you are currently, but only serve to further confuse the issue and take you down rabbit holes that you don't need to go down.
I realise you are in a comparatively desperate situation, but both your hip doc and your back doc have offered you good advice. There is no panacea for what you have, these can be a diagnostic challenge and require a structured approach. My advice may sound brutal, but I have seen this far too many times.
There are lots of reason to turn to Slowtwitch. There may be many people here who have had similar experiences, varied treatments and medical practitioners. There would also be here a variety of success and failures regarding those treatments. This experience may be very helpful in creating a diagnosis that to this point has been elusive to the original poster. His specialists should be turning to Slowtwitch. That is how medicine should work.
The hip specialist referred to a pain management clinic....that means he/she has no solution. The back specialist found a bunch of stuff on imaging that could be found on people with no symptoms at all.
I have found that many times physicians and PT's are tuned into a very different population than the Slowtwitch crowd. Their interest is reducing symptoms not necessarily getting you back to the level of activity being done prior to the interruption.
There may very well be an panacea for what he has.