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Manahawkin Chiropractic Center Treats Disc Herniation Pain

Disc herniations can bring about back pain and leg pain for some. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center welcomes those back pain sufferers due to a disc herniation. Gentle, relieving treatment without surgery is what we provide. Manahawkin back pain patients are relieved when they find us!

DISC HERNIATION: Size, Weight, Sleep

What matters when a disc produces back pain? Its size? Its weight? Its effect on quality of life? Spinal researchers have produced data and published that what the pain-producing disc looks like on imaging doesn’t really matter. The shape and size of an intervertebral spinal disc’s bulging nucleus pulposus has no tie 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 affected sufferer’s quality of sleep. 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 necessitates 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! Manahawkin Chiropractic Center gets that and wants you to know that managing - as conservatively as possible - the disc herniation is more realistic than curing it. 6.05% of lumbar discectomy surgery patients had a re-current disc herniation. What brought that on? 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 influenced 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. Controlling 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 occurrence 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’s where Manahawkin Chiropractic Center comes in with a treatment plan that ensures you know all there is to know about a disc herniation, how to nutritionally take care of it, how to get it back to being strong with exercise and keeping it that way, and how to do activities of daily living to avert (re)injury. A recent systematic review of approaches to managing back pain listed 10 approaches: manipulation/mobilization, psychological/behavioral, advice to stay active/bed rest, reassurance, antidepressants, NSAIDS, opioids, muscle relaxants, and paracetamol. (6) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center supports walking, moving, careful lifting, and especially being treated with gentle, safe, effective Cox® Technic spinal manipulation!

CONTACT Manahawkin Chiropractic Center

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 expect with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

Schedule your Manahawkin chiropractic appointment soon. Disc herniation sufferers are welcomed to our practice for relief and a plan for controlling its future effect on life. 

Manahawkin Chiropractic Center offers non-surgical treatment for relief of disc herniation related back pain.  
 
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