Pure Chiropractic Treats Disc Herniation Pain

March 26, 2019

“You have to know where you came from to know where you are going.”

It is true for all of us personally, familiarly, and professionally. It’s true for medicine – allopathic and alternative - too. It’s true for the understanding of the disc and the spine it holds. Awareness of Concord, NC back pain keeps evolving, and one of the major milestones was rather new in the history of man. Pure Chiropractic shares past and current discoveries about the disc and the back pain it brings about as well as the Concord, NC chiropractic care that reduces that back pain.

HISTORY OF THE DISC HERNIATION

The understanding of disc herniation as a compressive force on spinal nerves resulting in back pain and leg pain is a relatively recent phenomenon. Keep in mind that the spine changes as it grows older. The shape of the disc and the composition of it tissue changes. The disc’s center, nucleus pulposus, changes and decreases in size. (1) We know differently today, but in 1909, the disc herniation was assumed to be a tumor. In 1930, a neurologist (T Alajouanine) and surgeon (D Petit-Dutaillis) described their surgical experiences with disc herniations that were initially studied by a pathologist named CG Schmorl. But it was not until 1934 when WJ Mixter and JS Barr published the first report of surgically removing disc herniations in 19 patients. (2) (Unless it is published, it did not happen…and you don’t get credit for it!) So it was fewer than 100 years ago that the disc herniation was termed a disc herniation and identified as such! Allopathy and alternative medicine like chiropractic have risen to the challenge in that time.

ALLOPATHY and ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

Allopathic medicine is usually centered on the disease and tends to concentrate on symptom-specific treatment (usually pharmacological or invasive) to remove the cause of pain. Alternative medicine traditionally focused on a whole-body approach and tends to concentrate on treatments that stimulate the body’s capability to heal itself (herbal supplements, Reiki, chiropractic, Tai chi, acupuncture, etc.) to reduce pain. (3) Nowadays, integrative medicine is growing in its valuing and use of the best of both.

CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT FOR DISC HERNIATION

Chiropractic care is all-encompassing care for spine pain conditions. For the disc herniation resulting in low back pain, neck pain, leg pain and/or arm pain, gentle flexion distraction spinal manipulation is relieving. A new report states that horizontal traction was very effective in causing a significant increase in average lumbar spine disc height and decrease in lumbar lordosis. (4) Such is available with the Cox Technic System of Spinal Pain Management utilizing long-y axis distraction. Pure Chiropractic concentrates in this treatment. Cox Technic is described as a non-thrust low velocity variable amplitude spinal manipulation that takes care of low back pain non-pharmacologically. It’s shown to reduce pain in chronic low back pain patients. (5) It decreases intradiscal pressure in the disc to as low as -192mmHg, widens the spinal canal area by 28%, and increases disc height by 17%. (6) Pure Chiropractic eases back pain due to disc herniation quite effectively.

CONTACT Pure Chiropractic

Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. Jake Bohnen on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He presents a case of a disc herniation he treated with Cox® Technic and reduced pain…and the herniation on MRI!

Schedule a non-surgical Concord, NC chiropractic care appointment with Pure Chiropractic today. Together, we’ll determine where you have been on your back pain journey and make a path of correction and control for its future with the most proper treatment possible.

Pure Chiropractic gently treats the disc herniation causing back pain.

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