Most Chiropractic Clinic Treats Disc Herniation Pain
Disc herniations cause back pain and leg pain for some. Most Chiropractic Clinic welcomes those disc herniation pain patients. Gentle, relieving treatment without surgery is what we provide. Murfreesboro back pain patients find relief when they find us!
DISC HERNIATION: Size, Weight, Sleep
What matters when a disc triggers back pain? Its size? Its weight? Its effect on quality of life? Spinal researchers have generated data and published that what the pain-producing disc looks like on imaging doesn’t really matter. The size and shape of an intervertebral spinal disc’s bulging nucleus pulposus has no tie to a what a patient’s symptoms may be or how a patient feels. (1) The weight of a disc fragment did not correlate with the duration of symptoms or severity of pre- or post-operative leg pain nor post-operative leg pain or back pain improvement, the percentage of spinal canal occupation, herniation classification, or vertebral level. The size of the lumbar disc herniation didn’t have much effect on clinical outcomes. (2) Chronic lower back pain and sciatica due to lumbar disc herniation negatively impacted sufferer’s quality of sleep. Treatment benefitted patient perception of pain in visual analog scale (VAS) scores and the PSQI Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index scores. (3) Relieving chiropractic treatment of a pain-producing disc involves reducing the risk of recurrent back pain episodes as well as decreasing the pain of the current episode.
MANAGING BACK PAIN AND RISK OF ITS RECURRENCE
Once you’ve felt back pain related to a disc herniation, you do not want it again! Most Chiropractic Clinic gets that and shares that managing - as conservatively as possible - the disc herniation is more realistic than curing it. 6.05% of lumbar discectomy surgery patients experienced a re-current disc herniation. What prompted this? On their own, factors like age, BMI, current smoking status, heavy lifting, degenerative facet joint disease, operation time, and the time it took to ambulate after surgery impacted the risk of recurrent disc herniation. Combined, older age, male sex, high body mass index (BMI), and early ambulation were significant factors in the recurrence or a lumbar disc herniation. Managing weight, not lifting heavy items, and exercising were suggested risk reducers. (4) One new study reported that the amount of sedentary time probably did not raise the chance of a new bout of low back pain as much as the amount and type of physical activity. (5) Pain relief happens more as a roller coaster than a straight hill to no pain. A disc herniation is like a bruise on an apple rendering the apple (and by comparison, the spine) never quite the same again. That’s where Most Chiropractic Clinic comes in with a treatment plan that ensures you know all there is to know about a disc herniation, how to feed it nutritionally, how to exercise to return it to strength and keep it strong, and how to perform activities of daily living to avert (re)injury. A recent systematic review of ways to approach the management of back pain listed 10 approaches: manipulation/mobilization, psychological/behavioral, advice to stay active/bed rest, reassurance, antidepressants, NSAIDS, opioids, muscle relaxants, and paracetamol. (6) Most Chiropractic Clinic supports walking, moving, careful lifting, and especially being treated with gentle, safe, effective Cox® Technic spinal manipulation!
CONTACT Most Chiropractic Clinic
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Robert Patterson on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the realistic expectations back pain patients can have with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Murfreesboro chiropractic appointment soon. Disc herniation sufferers are welcomed to our practice for relief and a plan for controlling its future impact on life.
