Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation Treats Disc Herniation Pain
Disc herniations can bring about back pain and leg pain for some. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation welcomes those disc herniation pain patients. Gentle, relieving treatment without surgery is what we offer. Tonawanda back pain patients are relieved when they find us!
DISC HERNIATION: Size, Weight, Sleep
What matters when a disc causes back pain? Its size? Its weight? Its effect on quality of life? Spinal researchers have generated data and published that how the painful disc appears on imaging doesn’t really matter. The shape and size of an intervertebral spinal disc’s protruded nucleus pulposus has no tie to a patient’s clinical presentation or symptomatology or how a patient feels. (1) The weight of a disc fragment did not correlate with the amount of time the symptoms lasted or severity of pre- or post-operative leg pain nor post-operative leg pain or back pain improvement, the percent of space the disc occupied in the spinal canal, herniation classification, or vertebral level. The size of the lumbar disc herniation did not have much effect on patient outcomes. (2) Chronic lower back pain and sciatica due to lumbar disc herniation adversely impacted sleep quality. Treatment positively impacted patient perception of pain in visual analog scale (VAS) scores as well as in the PSQI Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index scores. (3) Pain lessening chiropractic treatment of a pain-producing disc entails decreasing 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 have experienced a disc herniation and its resulting back pain, you don’t want to have it back! Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation gets that and wants you to know that managing - as conservatively as possible - the disc herniation is more accurate 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 ambulation time 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 episode of low back pain as much as the amount and type of physical activity. (5) Pain relief comes more as a roller coaster than a straight hill to no pain. A disc herniation is like a bruise on an apple making the apple (and by comparison, the spine) never quite the same again. That’s where Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation comes in with a treatment plan that makes sure you understand the disc herniation, how to nutritionally take care of it, 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 approaches to managing back pain listed 10 approaches: manipulation/mobilization, psychological/behavioral, advice to stay active/bed rest, reassurance, antidepressants, NSAIDS, opioids, muscle relaxants, and paracetamol. (6) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation supports walking, moving, careful lifting, and especially being treated with gentle, safe, effective Cox® Technic spinal manipulation!
CONTACT Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
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.
Make your Tonawanda chiropractic appointment today. Disc herniation sufferers are invited to our practice for relief and a plan for controlling its future effect on life.
