Murfreesboro Thoracic Disc Herniation and Abdominal Pain
Abdominal pain brought on by a spinal disc herniation? Yes. It’s real. A few patients with a thoracic disc herniation experience a strange abdominal bulge. It’s rather rare, but your Murfreesboro chiropractor is attentive to its possibility and relationship to a thoracic disc herniation as its cause. Most Chiropractic Clinic recognizes the difficulty of a thoracic disc herniation surgery and offers conservative, gentle care to ease pain for many such patients.
ABDOMINAL PAIN WITH THORACIC DISC HERNIATION
Thoracic radiculopathy is extremely rare fortunately, but it can provoke quite a bit of pain and unique symptoms related to the abdomen. One case that came out recently was presented in the medical literature. A 52 year old patient who came into the office with severe right flank pain and abdominal pain. The treating physicians determined she had a T9-10 thoracic disc herniation and suggested an invasive surgery. (1) Another set of physicians describe a patient with unilateral, single-sided abdominal wall bulging and thoracic spine radicular pain caused by a lateral disc herniation at T11-12 that came back with bilateral disc prolapse and motor deficits. This was an even more unusual type of thoracic disc herniation according to these doctors. (2) Surgeons are prepared to do surgery for usual and unusual cases of thoracic disc herniation if the patient is so inclined.
SURGERY FOR THORACIC DISC HERNIATION
Surgery for thoracic disc herniation are complex and quite invasive due to its being so close to the spinal cord. Most thoracic disc herniations occur between T8 and L1. Surgeons explain that they would do surgery for intractable back or radicular pain, neurological deficits and myelopathy signs (often associated with large thoracic disc herniations that occupy more than 40% of the spinal canal. (3) For patients seeking a conservative option, Murfreesboro chiropractic care at Most Chiropractic Clinic offers such.
CHIROPRACTIC FOR THORACIC DISC HERNIATION
Most Chiropractic Clinic offers the gentle protocols of Cox® Technic to treat the thoracic disc herniation. Your Murfreesboro chiropractor can be very specific in hand contact and relief with chiropractic care. Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes a case of thoracic disc herniation and its relief with Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and chiropractic treatment.
CONTACT Most Chiropractic Clinic
Set your next Murfreesboro chiropractic visit soon. Most Chiropractic Clinic understands the pain of a thoracic disc herniation and its unique clinical presentation like an abdominal bulge. See you soon!
