“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 is true for
medicine – allopathic and alternative - too. It’s true for the comprehension
of the disc and the spine it holds. Knowledge
of Baton Rouge back pain continues to evolve, and
one of the key milestones was rather new
in our human history. Spine & Sports Rehab Center discloses
past and current discoveries about the disc
and the back pain it produces as well as the
Baton Rouge chiropractic care that relieves 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 recent wonder. Remember that the spine changes as it grows older. The spinal disc’s shape and tissue
composition 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 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 did not happen…and you do not get credit
for it!) So it was fewer than 100 years ago that
the disc herniation was named a disc herniation and known
as such! Allopathy and alternative medicine like chiropractic have risen
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 remove the cause of pain. Alternative medicine traditionally
centered on a whole-body approach and has a tendency to focus on treatments that increase
the body’s capability to heal itself (herbal supplements, Reiki, chiropractic, Tai chi, acupuncture, etc.) to decrease pain. (3) Today, integrative medicine is growing in its appreciation and utilization of the best of both.
CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT FOR DISC HERNIATION
Chiropractic care is all-encompassing
care for spine pain conditions. For the disc herniation producing
low back pain, neck pain, leg pain and/or arm pain, gentle flexion distraction
spinal manipulation is easing. A new report states that horizontal traction was quite helpful
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. Spine & Sports Rehab Center 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 evidence-based to
decrease pain in chronic low back pain patients. (5) It reduces
intradiscal pressure in the disc to as low as -192mmHg, opens the
spinal canal area by 28%, and increases disc height by 17%. (6)
Spine & Sports Rehab Center eases back pain due to disc herniation quite
effectively.
CONTACT Spine & Sports Rehab 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 Baton Rouge chiropractic care
appointment with Spine & Sports Rehab Center today. Together, we will determine 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.