Minster Disc Herniations Can Go Away
“There’s a disc herniation in your spine.” doesn’t have to scare you. Conservative care helps decrease pain and even reduce the disc herniation. Surgery isn’t always necessary. Conservative care appeared to reduce disc herniation and its related back pain. Minster Chiropractic Center utilizes gentle spinal manipulation as part of the overall Minster chiropractic treatment plan.
DISC HERNIATIONS RESORB, GO AWAY, WITH CONSERVATIVE CARE: 70.39% WITHIN 6 MONTHS
A new research meta-analysis report, the top-level review of medical literature on a specific topic, reported on the spontaneous resorption of a lumbar disc herniation with conservative treatment. In 31 studies, the researchers found that the overall resorption rate was 70.39%. By type of disc, resorption rates ranged from 13.33% to 87.77%. The resorption rate was higher for a ruptured, non-contained disc (fragment) than a contained disc. Resorption rates varied by country from 60.68% in China to 83.52% in Korea. (In the US, the resorption rate was 61.66%.) The report concluded that the resorption process mainly happened within 6 months of conservative treatment. (1) Another study regarding patient clinical outcomes in a single treatment center were evaluated for response to care of giant lumbar disc herniations. 41% of these patients’ "giant lumbar" discs showed resorption within 6 months, 37% in 6-12 months, and 32% after 12 months. The range of time for resorption was 1 month to 8 years. 59% of those who went through conservative care had more than 30% resorption. 25% experienced greater than 50% resorption. The authors of this study wrote that as long as there is no sign of progressive nerve damage or cauda equina syndrome, conservative care was favored as resorption was more probable with these disc protrusions that extended into the spinal canal. (2) Minster Chiropractic Center agrees that in the absence of nerve injury and/or cauda equina symptoms, conservative treatment - like our gentle, safe chiropractic spinal manipulation - is helpful. Starting with the initial, complete examination of symptoms to the care at every visit, our Minster back pain and neck pain patients with disc herniations often find relief and a decrease in their fear of their disc herniation and its impact on their life.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr Coleman Cormier on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his use of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to help a patient with a large disc herniation.
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