Chiropractic Reduces Disc Herniation Related Pain Often Without MRI
MRIs are fascinating. They show some great images of the body. Chiropractors like looking at spinal MRI images. Why? The spine is your Manahawkin chiropractor’s realm! Manahawkin Chiropractic Center values the MRI image study for what it is: a a piece of the diagnostic puzzle. But MRIs are not always a clinical necessity. Can MRI help determine whether to use non-surgical care or surgical care for back pain relief? Read on for the latest findings.
The Usefulness of MRI
When a Manahawkin patient’s back pain, neck pain, arm pain or leg pain symptoms denote the need for an MRI, Manahawkin Chiropractic Center orders one for such a Manahawkin back pain patient. MRI may enhance your Manahawkin chiropractor’s clinical perception of the condition oftentimes (but not always!). Pre-treatment and post-MRI images are interesting. Did the disc herniation reduce now that the pain disappeared? Manahawkin chiropractic patients will often ask that of Manahawkin Chiropractic Center. And researchers will consider MRIs for their research studies on just such a query.
The Curiosity of MRI
Researchers are not the only ones who curiously survey MRI images of low back pain sufferers to check if there is any connection between pain and no pain and the MRI pre and post treatment for back pain. Patients wonder, too. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is well aware that our Manahawkin back pain patients wonder!
Knowing that doctors and patients find MRI images a curiosity when there is back pain and leg pain, a group of researchers set out to determine if MRI is of value in determining how treatment outcomes will be for patients with sciatic leg pain due to a herniated lumbar disc. They questioned if MRI could help determine whether to do back surgery now or stay the course with conservative care. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center and the Manahawkin chiropractic low back pain patients we care for would love such a simple indicator! Study participants were randomly sent to surgical care or a course of prolonged conservative care. Two findings – a disc extrusion and nerve root compression on MRI in patients with less severe leg pain – suggested a satisfactory outcome with either type of care. Another interesting finding: the size of the disc herniation at the beginning of caredid not affect the outcome. The two groups revealed significant difference in outcomes between them – surgical and conservative. (1) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center reads similar reports increasingly in the back pain research. Remember the Atlas studies of surgical and non-surgical interventions for back pain and sciatica? There wasn’t much variation in those landmark studies either: 50% vs. 53% non-surgical vs. surgical for back pain due to spinal stenosis (2) and 69% vs. 61% surgical vs. non-surgical for sciatica (3).
Manahawkin Chiropractic Center Offers Chiropractic Non-Surgical Care of Disc Herniation
Manahawkin Chiropractic Center invites you to make a Manahawkin chiropractic appointment today. Trust Manahawkin Chiropractic Center to provide evidence-based chiropractic care that relieves your spine pain many times without an MRI. Together, we can create a non-surgical (and even potentially non-MRI!) treatment plan to lessen your back pain.
Schedule your Manahawkin chiropractic appointment today.
