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Considerations of New York City Back Surgery for a Herniated Disc

January 22, 2019

The aggravation of New York City back pain: It hurts. It messes up life. It doesn’t always react positively to the best-intended care programs: back surgery or conservative. That is why Rosenberg Wellness Center exists. Rosenberg Wellness Center is here to assist New York City back pain and neck pain patients uncover an alternative that works for their New York City back pain relief goal.

BACK PAIN OPTIONS

There are lots of New York City back pain relief plan options! New research shares some fascinating findings. Let’s look at opioids and Tylenol for back pain relief. There is no difference in low back pain relief and radicular extremity pain (leg pain sciatica) relief between taking Tylenol and taking powerful opioid drugs. (1) Melatonin guards the intervertebral disc’s nucleus pulposus cells from apoptosis (cell death) and stopped disc degeneration. (2) Melatonin does this. There’s hope for disc degeneration’s reversal. And what about this report? Spontaneous resorption of a lumbar herniated disc confirmed on MRI was seen in all of 9 patients who experienced back pain and sciatic leg pain, declined back surgery, and demonstrated no motor deficit! It required a mean of about 8.7 months. Clinical relief with conservative treatment took a mean of just 5.7 weeks. (3) That’s rousing news! The discs resorbed.

BACK SURGERY DECISIONS

What makes a patient pick New York City back surgery over other options? The patient’s ideas about the treatment may be based on inadequate information. The time required for a patient to make a decision may be rushed because of scheduling when the patient is one who requires time to really think about the options. The patient’s not wanting to distress the system, disappoint the healthcare provider by refusing recommended treatment. The patient’s past experiences with treatment options as taken by relatives or friends and the resulting good or bad outcomes. Choosing back surgery or a non-surgical treatment plan for low back and/or leg pain due to a disc herniation is a big, complex decision. (4) It’s a decision-making process Rosenberg Wellness Center knows well, that Rosenberg Wellness Center has helped many New York City chiropractic patients to make. Rosenberg Wellness Center views each patient as an individual case with many external influencing factors. Armed with knowledge of the spine, of disc conditions, of the research-supported treatment options with desirable clinical outcomes, Rosenberg Wellness Center can help with that decision process, establish a treatment plan with goals that, should they not be met as anticipated, keeps the back surgery option open should it be necessary. Take time to decide on New York City back surgery for New York City back and leg pain due to disc herniation. It is an important decision! Rosenberg Wellness Center has helped may New York City back pain patients with Cox Technic to avoid back surgery.

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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. James Cox as he shares more about the decision to go forward with back surgery or not on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson.

Schedule your New York City chiropractic appointment today for a New York City back pain relief discussion of New York City surgical and non-surgical options. Rosenberg Wellness Center knows the annoyance of back pain and is here to help you understand the options for its relief. Rosenberg Wellness Center is your partner in New York City back pain relief no matter the option you choose.

 
New York City back surgery for a disc herniation is an option to be carefully studied before a decision is made to proceed.