Rosenberg Wellness Center Treats Disc Herniation Pain
Disc herniations cause back pain and leg pain for some. Rosenberg Wellness Center welcomes those back pain sufferers due to a disc herniation. Gentle, relieving treatment without surgery is what we provide. New York City back pain patients find relief when they find us!
DISC HERNIATION: Size, Weight, Sleep
What matters when a disc triggers back pain? Its size? Its weight? Its effect on quality of life? Spinal researchers have produced data and described that what the pain-producing disc looks like on imaging does not really matter. The size and shape of an intervertebral spinal disc’s protruded nucleus pulposus has no link to a what a patient’s symptoms may be or how a patient feels. (1) The weight of a disc fragment did not relate to 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 percentage of spinal canal occupation, herniation classification, or vertebral level. The size of the lumbar disc herniation didn’t have much effect on clinical outcomes. (2) Chronic lower back pain and sciatica due to lumbar disc herniation adversely impacted sleep quality. Treatment benefitted patient perception of pain in visual analog scale (VAS) scores and the PSQI Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index scores. (3) Pain lessening chiropractic treatment of a pain-producing disc entails reducing the risk of recurrent back pain episodes as well as reducing the pain of the current episode.
MANAGING BACK PAIN AND RISK OF ITS RECURRENCE
Once you’ve felt back pain related to a disc herniation, you don’t want to have it back! Rosenberg Wellness Center gets that and shares 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 time it took to ambulate after surgery affected 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 proposed risk reducers. (4) One new study reported that the amount of sedentary time probably did not increase the chance of a new bout of low back pain as much as the amount and type of physical activity. (5) Pain relief happens more as a roller coaster than a straight hill to pain relief. A disc herniation is like a bruise on an apple rendering the apple (and by comparison, the spine) never quite the same again. That is where Rosenberg Wellness Center comes in with a treatment plan that ensures you know all there is to know about a disc herniation, how to feed it nutritionally, how to exercise to return it to strength and keep it strong, and how to do activities of daily living to prevent (re)injury. A newer systematic review of approaches to managing back pain revealed 10 approaches: manipulation/mobilization, psychological/behavioral, advice to stay active/bed rest, reassurance, antidepressants, NSAIDS, opioids, muscle relaxants, and paracetamol. (6) Rosenberg Wellness Center encourages walking, moving, careful lifting, and especially being treated with gentle, safe, effective Cox® Technic spinal manipulation!
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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 New York City chiropractic appointment soon. Disc herniation sufferers are welcomed to our practice for relief and a plan for controlling its future effect on life.
