“You have to know where you came from to know where you are
going.”
It’s true for all of us personally,
familiarly, and professionally. It is true for
medicine – allopathic and alternative - too. It is true for the knowledge
of the disc and the spine it holds. Knowledge
of San Jose back pain continues to evolve, and
one of the major milestones was rather recent
in the history of man. Chiropractic Solutions discloses
past and current findings on the disc
and the back pain it produces as well as the
San Jose chiropractic care that reduces that back
pain.
HISTORY OF THE DISC HERNIATION
The understanding of disc herniation as a
compressive force on spinal nerves causing back pain and leg
pain is a relatively recent 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 talked about by a pathologist
named CG Schmorl. But it wasn’t 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 did not happen…and you do not get credit
for it!) So it was less than a century 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 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 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 decrease pain. (3) Today, integrative medicine is escalating in its appreciation and use of the best of both.
CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT FOR DISC HERNIATION
Chiropractic care is comprehensive
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 easing. A new report points
out that horizontal traction was very helpful
in producing 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 utilizing long-y axis distraction. Chiropractic Solutions 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’s evidence-based 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 enlarges disc height by 17%. (6)
Chiropractic Solutions eases back pain due to disc herniation quite
effectively.
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
Listen to this PODCAST
by Dr. Jake Bohnen on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He discusses a
case of a disc herniation he treated with Cox® Technic and reduced pain…and the
herniation on MRI!
Schedule a non-surgical San Jose chiropractic care
appointment with Chiropractic Solutions today. Together, we will figure
out where you have been on your back pain journey
and set a course of correction and control for its
future with the most suitable treatment possible.