“You have to know where you came from to know where you are
going.”
It’s true for all of us individually,
domestically, and professionally. It’s true for
medicine – allopathic and alternative - too. It is true for the understanding
of the disc and the spine it houses. Awareness
of Tonawanda back pain continues to evolve, and
one of the foremost milestones was rather new
in the history of man. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation discloses
old and new discoveries about the disc
and the back pain it causes as well as the
Tonawanda chiropractic care that relieves that back
pain.
HISTORY OF THE DISC HERNIATION
The knowledge of disc herniation as a
compressive force on spinal nerves causing back pain and leg
pain is a relatively recent wonder. Keep
in mind that the spine changes as it ages. The shape
of the disc and the composition of it tissue changes. The disc’s center,
nucleus pulposus, changes and gets smaller. (1) We know
better today, but in 1909, the disc herniation was thought
to be a tumor. In 1930, a neurologist (T Alajouanine) and surgeon (D
Petit-Dutaillis) explained their surgical experiences with disc
herniations that were initially studied by a pathologist
named CG Schmorl. But it was not until 1934 when WJ Mixter and JS
Barr circulated the first report of surgically getting
rid of 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 concentrate
on symptom-specific treatment (usually pharmacological or invasive) to remove the cause of pain. Alternative medicine traditionally
focused on a whole-body approach and tends to concentrate on treatments that increase
the body’s capability to heal itself (herbal supplements, Reiki, chiropractic, Tai chi, acupuncture, etc.) to decrease pain. (3) Today, integrative medicine is growing in its appreciation and use of the best of both.
CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT FOR DISC HERNIATION
Chiropractic care is all-encompassing
care for spine pain conditions. For the disc herniation causing
low back pain, neck pain, leg pain and/or arm pain, gentle flexion distraction
spinal manipulation is easing. A new study points
out that horizontal traction was quite effective
in causing a significant increase in
average lumbar spine disc height and reduction in lumbar
lordosis. (4) Such is available with the Cox Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management causing long-y axis distraction. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation 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 shown 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 enlarges disc height by 17%. (6)
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation relieves back pain due to disc herniation quite
effectively.
CONTACT Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
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 Tonawanda chiropractic care
appointment with Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation today. Together, we’ll figure
out where you have been on your back pain journey
and set a course of correction and control for its
future with the most proper treatment possible.