“You have to know where you came from to know where you are
going.”
It’s true for all of us individually,
domestically, and professionally. It’s true for
medicine – allopathic and alternative - too. It is true for the knowledge
of the disc and the spine it houses. Knowledge
of Auburn back pain continues to evolve, and
one of the major milestones was relatively new
in the history of man. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. discloses
past and current findings on the disc
and the back pain it produces as well as the
Auburn chiropractic care that relieves that back
pain.
HISTORY OF THE DISC HERNIATION
The knowledge of disc herniation as a
compressive force on spinal nerves causing back pain and leg
pain is a relatively new wonder. Keep
in mind that the spine changes as it grows older. The shape
of the disc and the composition of it tissue changes. The center part of the disc,
nucleus pulposus, changes and gets smaller. (1) We know
better 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 talked about by a pathologist
named CG Schmorl. But it was not until 1934 when WJ Mixter and JS
Barr circulated the first report of surgically removing disc herniations in 19 patients. (2) (Unless it is
published, it didn’t happen…and you do not get credit
for it!) So it was fewer than 100 years ago that
the disc herniation was termed a disc herniation and recognized
as such! Allopathy and alternative medicine like chiropractic have grown
to the challenge in those intervening years.
ALLOPATHY and ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Allopathic medicine is traditionally focused
on the disease and has a tendency to focus
on symptom-specific treatment (usually pharmacological or invasive) to get
rid of the cause of pain. Alternative medicine usually
focused on a whole-body approach and has a tendency to focus on treatments that stimulate
the body’s capability to heal itself (herbal supplements, Reiki, chiropractic, Tai chi, acupuncture, etc.) to decrease 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 causing
low back pain, neck pain, leg pain and/or arm pain, gentle flexion distraction
spinal manipulation is relieving. A new report points
out that horizontal traction was very effective
in causing a significant increase in
average lumbar spine disc height and reduction in lumbar
lordosis. (4) Such is available with the Cox Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management causing long-y axis distraction. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. specializes
in this treatment. Cox Technic is depicted as a non-thrust low
velocity variable amplitude spinal manipulation that manages low
back pain non-pharmacologically. It is evidence-based to
decrease 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 enlarges disc height by 17%. (6)
Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. eases back pain due to disc herniation very
effectively.
CONTACT Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C.
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 Auburn chiropractic care
appointment with Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. today. Together, we’ll figure
out where you’ve been on your back pain journey
and create a course of correction and control for its
future with the most appropriate treatment possible.