Nikolai Khabibulin Had Lumbar Microdiscectomy with Dr. Robert Watkins IV
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It comes with doing what we love, you know. The injuries, the pain, the exhaustion. It's inevitably going to happen in some form if you have a long enough career, so it's important, I think, to have a trusted medical professional by your side.
Nikolai Khabibulin
I think that for those that are in situations like mine is harder to come to a decision about what kind of treatment to pursue if any at all. Like, I did not have a particular injury that would want to make me see a doctor, nothing had happened to me that I could pinpoint as being the reason for which I would need some in-depth medical attention. Except for the wear and tear that comes from doing what I do for years. That’s reason enough and I can see that now.
Hindsight is 20/20. Don’t live with the doubt, go have a check-up and know for sure. It’ll make your life easier. For me, I tried some injections in order to see if the discomfort would go away and it didn’t. I needed to have surgery to remove a herniated disc and the misery only stopped after I did that.