Manahawkin Thoracic Disc Herniation and Abdominal Pain
Abdominal pain caused by a spinal disc herniation? Yes. It’s real. A few patients with a thoracic disc herniation experience a strange abdominal bulge. It is not very usual, but your Manahawkin chiropractor is aware of its possibility and relationship to a thoracic disc herniation as its origin. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center recognizes the complexity of a thoracic disc herniation surgery and offers conservative, gentle care to ease pain for many such patients.
ABDOMINAL PAIN WITH THORACIC DISC HERNIATION
Thoracic radiculopathy is extremely rare luckily, but it can provoke a lot of pain and interesting symptoms related to the abdomen. One recent case was described in the medical literature. A 52 year old patient who presented with severe right flank pain and abdominal pain. The treating physicians diagnosed her with a T9-10 thoracic disc herniation and proposed an invasive surgery. (1) Another set of physicians wrote about a patient with unilateral, single-sided abdominal wall bulging and thoracic spine radicular pain due to a lateral disc herniation at T11-12 that came back with bilateral disc prolapse and motor deficits. Their case was an even more unusual case of thoracic disc herniation according to the physicians. (2) Surgeons are ready to do surgery for usual and unusual cases of thoracic disc herniation if the patient is ready.
SURGERY FOR THORACIC DISC HERNIATION
Surgery for thoracic disc herniation are complex and quite invasive by reason of its close proximity to the spine cord. Most thoracic disc herniations occur between T8 and L1. Surgeons write that they would do surgery for intractable back or radicular pain, neurological deficits and myelopathy signs (often related to large thoracic disc herniations that occupy greater than 40% of the spinal canal. (3) For patients wanting a conservative option, Manahawkin chiropractic care at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center offers such.
CHIROPRACTIC FOR THORACIC DISC HERNIATION
Manahawkin Chiropractic Center offers the gentle protocols of Cox® Technic to address the thoracic disc herniation. Your Manahawkin chiropractor can be quite precise in hand contact and relief with chiropractic care. Check out this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes a case of thoracic disc herniation and its relief with Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and chiropractic treatment.
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Set your next Manahawkin chiropractic visit soon. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center understands the pain of a thoracic disc herniation and its unique clinical symptomatology like an abdominal bulge. Come by soon!
