Adele has candidly shared more details about the extent of her back problems during a recent performance at her ‘Weekends With Adele’ residency in Las Vegas.
The 34-year-old songstress expressed that she was performing with a disintegrated disk in her spine, saying: “Is anyone else kind of my age starting getting bad knees?
I have got really bad sciatica in my left leg and my L5 disc is not fucking there anymore. It’s worn away.”According to the Cleveland Clinic, the L5 disk’s associated nerve, situated at the lower back, is responsible for providing “sensation to the outer side of your lower leg, the upper part of your foot and the space between your first and second toe”.
It also “controls hip, knee, foot and toe movements”. Sciatica, a result of the compressed L5 nerve, can bring physical pain, numbness and weakness according to the Mayo Clinic.The singer first revealed her sciatica diagnosis during her New Year’s Eve show at the residency last year, expressing to the crowd: “I have to waddle these days as I have really bad sciatica.”Earlier in 2021, she highlighted that her back issues have persisted since her youth.
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