Satterwhite Chiropractic Treats Disc Herniation Pain
Disc herniations cause back pain and leg pain for some. Satterwhite Chiropractic welcomes those back pain sufferers due to a disc herniation. Gentle, relieving treatment without surgery is what we provide. Oxford 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 link to a what a patient’s symptoms may be or how a patient feels. (1) The weight of a disc fragment did not correlate with the duration of symptoms or severity of pre- or post-operative leg pain nor post-operative leg pain or back pain improvement, the percent of space the disc occupied in the spinal canal, herniation classification, or vertebral level. The size of the lumbar disc herniation didn’t have much effect on patient outcomes. (2) Chronic lower back pain and sciatica due to lumbar disc herniation adversely affected sleep quality. Treatment benefitted 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 necessitates 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 felt back pain related to a disc herniation, you do not want to have it back! Satterwhite Chiropractic 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 ambulation time 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. 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 raise the chance of a new occurrence 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 rendering the apple (and by comparison, the spine) never quite the same again. That is where Satterwhite Chiropractic comes in with a treatment plan that makes sure 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 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) Satterwhite Chiropractic promotes walking, moving, careful lifting, and especially being treated with gentle, safe, effective Cox® Technic spinal manipulation!
CONTACT Satterwhite Chiropractic
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.
Schedule your Oxford chiropractic appointment today. Disc herniation sufferers are invited to our practice for relief and a plan for controlling its future effect on life.
