“You have to know where you came from to know where you are
going.”
It’s true for all of us personally,
domestically, and professionally. It’s true for
medicine – allopathic and alternative - too. It is true for the comprehension
of the disc and the spine it holds. Understanding
of Murfreesboro back pain keeps evolving, and
one of the key milestones was rather recent
in the history of man. Most Chiropractic Clinic discloses
old and new findings on the disc
and the back pain it produces as well as the
Murfreesboro chiropractic care that reduces that back
pain.
HISTORY OF THE DISC HERNIATION
The understanding of disc herniation as a
compressive force on spinal nerves resulting in back pain and leg
pain is a relatively recent phenomenon. Keep
in mind that the spine changes as it ages. The shape
of the disc and the composition of it tissue changes. The center part of the disc,
nucleus pulposus, changes and decreases in size. (1) We know
differently today, but in 1909, the disc herniation was assumed
to be a tumor. In 1930, a neurologist (T Alajouanine) and surgeon (D
Petit-Dutaillis) described their surgical experiences with disc
herniations that were initially talked about by a pathologist
named CG Schmorl. But it was not until 1934 when WJ Mixter and JS
Barr circulated the first report of surgically removing disc herniations in 19 patients. (2) (Unless it is
published, it did not happen…and you do not get credit
for it!) So it was fewer than 100 years ago that
the disc herniation was termed a disc herniation and known
as such! Allopathy and alternative medicine like chiropractic have risen
to the challenge in those intervening years.
ALLOPATHY and ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Allopathic medicine is traditionally centered
on the disease and has a tendency to focus
on symptom-specific treatment (usually pharmacological or invasive) to get
rid of the cause of pain. Alternative medicine usually
centered on a whole-body approach and tends to focus on treatments that increase
the body’s capability to heal itself (herbal supplements, Reiki, chiropractic, Tai chi, acupuncture, etc.) to reduce pain. (3) Today, integrative medicine is escalating in its valuing and use of the best of both.
CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT FOR DISC HERNIATION
Chiropractic care is comprehensive
care for spine pain conditions. For the disc herniation producing
low back pain, neck pain, leg pain and/or arm pain, gentle flexion distraction
spinal manipulation is relieving. A new report points
out that horizontal traction was very effective
in producing a significant enlargement of
average lumbar spine disc height and decrease in lumbar
lordosis. (4) Such is available with the Cox Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management causing long-y axis distraction. Most Chiropractic Clinic concentrates
in this treatment. Cox Technic is described as a non-thrust low
velocity variable amplitude spinal manipulation that manages low
back pain non-pharmacologically. It is evidence-based to
decrease pain in chronic low back pain patients. (5) It decreases
intradiscal pressure in the disc to as low as -192mmHg, opens the
spinal canal area by 28%, and increases disc height by 17%. (6)
Most Chiropractic Clinic relieves back pain due to disc herniation quite
effectively.
CONTACT Most Chiropractic Clinic
Listen to this PODCAST
by Dr. Jake Bohnen on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He presents a
case of a disc herniation he treated with Cox® Technic and reduced pain…and the
herniation on MRI!
Schedule a non-surgical Murfreesboro chiropractic care
appointment with Most Chiropractic Clinic today. Together, we’ll figure
out where you’ve been on your back pain journey
and create a course of correction and control for its
future with the most appropriate treatment possible.