“You have to know where you came from to know where you are
going.”
It’s true for all of us individually,
familiarly, and professionally. It is true for
medicine – allopathic and alternative - too. It’s true for the knowledge
of the disc and the spine it holds. Knowledge
of Severna Park back pain keeps evolving, and
one of the major milestones was rather recent
in the history of man. Back And Neck Care Center discloses
past and current discoveries about the disc
and the back pain it brings about as well as the
Severna Park chiropractic care that reduces that back
pain.
HISTORY OF THE DISC HERNIATION
The knowledge of disc herniation as a
compressive force on spinal nerves resulting in back pain and leg
pain is a relatively new phenomenon. Keep
in mind that the spine changes as it ages. The shape
of the disc and the composition of it tissue changes. The disc’s center,
nucleus pulposus, changes and gets smaller. (1) We know
differently today, but in 1909, the disc herniation was thought
to be a tumor. In 1930, a neurologist (T Alajouanine) and surgeon (D
Petit-Dutaillis) explained 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 circulated the first report of surgically taking out disc herniations in 19 patients. (2) (Unless it is
published, it didn’t happen…and you don’t get credit
for it!) So it was less than a century ago that
the disc herniation was named a disc herniation and recognized
as such! Allopathy and alternative medicine like chiropractic have grown
to the challenge in that time.
ALLOPATHY and ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Allopathic medicine is usually focused
on the disease and tends to focus
on symptom-specific treatment (usually pharmacological or invasive) to get
rid of the cause of pain. Alternative medicine traditionally
centered on a whole-body approach and has a tendency to focus on treatments that stimulate
the body’s ability to heal itself (herbal supplements, Reiki, chiropractic, Tai chi, acupuncture, etc.) to reduce pain. (3) Nowadays, integrative medicine is escalating in its appreciation 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 study states that horizontal traction was very helpful
in producing 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 causing long-y axis distraction. Back And Neck Care Center specializes
in this treatment. Cox Technic is described as a non-thrust low
velocity variable amplitude spinal manipulation that manages low
back pain non-pharmacologically. It’s shown to
reduce pain in chronic low back pain patients. (5) It reduces
intradiscal pressure in the disc to as low as -192mmHg, widens the
spinal canal area by 28%, and increases disc height by 17%. (6)
Back And Neck Care Center eases back pain due to disc herniation very
effectively.
CONTACT Back And Neck Care Center
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 Severna Park chiropractic care
appointment with Back And Neck Care Center today. Together, we’ll determine where you have been on your back pain journey
and make a course of correction and control for its
future with the most appropriate treatment possible.