New York City Disc Herniations Can Go Away
“You have a disc herniation.” does not have to scare you. Conservative care helps lessen pain and even shrink the disc herniation. Surgery isn’t always needed. Conservative care appeared to reduce disc herniation and its associated back pain. Rosenberg Wellness Center uses gentle spinal manipulation as part of the overall New York City chiropractic treatment plan.
DISC HERNIATIONS RESORB, GO AWAY, WITH CONSERVATIVE CARE: 70.39% WITHIN 6 MONTHS
A recent research meta-analysis report, the top-level review of medical literature on a given topic, detailed the spontaneous resorption of a lumbar disc herniation with conservative treatment. In 31 studies, the researchers found that the overall resorption rate was 70.39%. By type of disc, resorption rates varied from 13.33% to 87.77%. The rate of resorption was greater for a ruptured, non-contained disc (fragment) than a contained disc. Resorption rates varied by country from 60.68% in China to 83.52% in Korea. (The US resorption rate was 61.66%.) The report said that the resorption process mainly happened within 6 months of conservative treatment. (1) Another study regarding patient clinical outcomes in one care center were evaluated for response to treatment of giant lumbar disc herniations. 41% of these patients’ "giant lumbar" discs appeared on imaging to have resorbed within 6 months, 37% in 6-12 months, and 32% after a year. The range of time for resorption was 1 month to 8 years. 59% of those who underwent conservative care had greater than 30% resorption. 25% had greater than 50% resorption. The authors of this study stated that as long as there is no sign of progressive nerve damage or cauda equina syndrome, conservative care was preferred since resorption was more probable with these disc protrusions that were in the spinal canal. (2) Rosenberg Wellness Center agrees that in the absence of nerve injury and/or cauda equina symptoms, conservative treatment - like our gentle, safe chiropractic spinal manipulation - is helpful. Starting with the initial, complete examination of symptoms to the treatment at each visit, our New York City back pain and neck pain patients with disc herniations often report relief and a reduction in their fear of a disc herniation and its impact on their life.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr Coleman Cormier on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his use of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to help a patient with a large disc herniation.
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