Amelia Chiropractic Clinic Treats Disc Herniation Pain

Disc herniations can bring about back pain and leg pain for some. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic welcomes those disc herniation pain patients. Gentle, relieving treatment without surgery is what we deliver. Fernandina Beach back pain patients are relieved when they find us!

DISC HERNIATION: Size, Weight, Sleep

What matters when a disc causes back pain? Its size? Its weight? Its effect on quality of life? Spinal researchers have generated data and published that what the pain-producing disc looks like on imaging doesn’t really matter. The size and shape of an intervertebral spinal disc’s bulging 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 percent of spinal canal occupation, herniation classification, or vertebral level. The size of the lumbar disc herniation did not have much effect on patient outcomes. (2) Chronic lower back pain and sciatica due to lumbar disc herniation adversely impacted sufferer’s quality of sleep. Treatment improved patient perception of pain in visual analog scale (VAS) scores as well as in the PSQI Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index scores. (3) Relieving chiropractic treatment of a pain-producing disc involves decreasing 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 experienced a disc herniation and its resulting back pain, you don’t want it again! Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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 had 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 ambulation time after surgery impacted 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 suggested risk reducers. (4) One new study reported that the amount of sedentary time probably did not increase the risk of a new episode of low back pain as much as the amount and type of physical activity. (5) Pain relief comes more as a roller coaster than a straight hill to no pain. A disc herniation is like a bruise on an apple making the apple (and by comparison, the spine) never quite the same again. That’s where Amelia Chiropractic Clinic comes in with a treatment plan that ensures you understand the disc herniation, how to feed it nutritionally, how to get it back to being strong with exercise and keeping it that way, and how to perform activities of daily living to prevent (re)injury. A recent systematic review of ways to approach the management of back pain listed 10 approaches: manipulation/mobilization, psychological/behavioral, advice to stay active/bed rest, reassurance, antidepressants, NSAIDS, opioids, muscle relaxants, and paracetamol. (6) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic promotes walking, moving, careful lifting, and especially being treated with gentle, safe, effective Cox® Technic spinal manipulation!

CONTACT Amelia Chiropractic Clinic

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.

Make your Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment today. Disc herniation sufferers are invited to our practice for relief and a plan for controlling its future impact on life. 

Amelia Chiropractic Clinic offers non-surgical treatment for relief of disc herniation related back pain.  
 
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