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Hollstrom & Associates Inc Treats Disc Herniation Pain

Disc herniations can bring about back pain and leg pain for some. Hollstrom & Associates Inc welcomes those back pain sufferers due to a disc herniation. Gentle, relieving treatment without surgery is what we provide. Largo back pain patients find relief when they find us!

DISC HERNIATION: Size, Weight, Sleep

What matters when a disc triggers back pain? Its size? Its weight? Its effect on quality of life? Spinal researchers have generated data and published that how the painful disc appears 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 patient outcomes. (2) Chronic lower back pain and sciatica due to lumbar disc herniation negatively affected sufferer’s quality of sleep. Treatment benefitted patient perception of pain in visual analog scale (VAS) scores as well as in the PSQI Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index scores. (3) Pain lessening chiropractic treatment of a pain-producing disc entails decreasing the risk of recurrent back pain episodes as well as decreasing 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! Hollstrom & Associates Inc gets that and shares that managing - as conservatively as possible - the disc herniation is more realistic 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 experience of a recurrent 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 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 Hollstrom & Associates Inc comes in with a treatment plan that ensures you understand the disc herniation, how to nutritionally take care of it, how to exercise to return it to strength and keep it strong, and how to do 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) Hollstrom & Associates Inc encourages walking, moving, careful lifting, and especially being treated with gentle, safe, effective Cox® Technic spinal manipulation!

CONTACT Hollstrom & Associates Inc

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.

Make your Largo chiropractic appointment now. Disc herniation sufferers are welcomed to our practice for relief and a plan for controlling its future effect on life. 

Hollstrom & Associates Inc uses non-surgical treatment for relief of disc herniation related back pain.  
 
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