“You have to know where you came from to know where you are
going.”
It is true for all of us personally,
familiarly, and professionally. It’s true for
medicine – allopathic and alternative - too. It’s true for the understanding
of the disc and the spine it holds. Awareness
of Manahawkin back pain continues to evolve, and
one of the key milestones was rather recent
in the history of man. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center shares
old and new findings on the disc
and the back pain it brings about as well as the
Manahawkin 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 new wonder. Remember that the spine changes as it ages. The shape
of the disc and the composition of it tissue changes. The center part of the disc,
nucleus pulposus, changes and decreases in size. (1) We know
differently today, but in 1909, the disc herniation was believed
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 studied by a pathologist
named CG Schmorl. But it was not until 1934 when WJ Mixter and JS
Barr published the first report of surgically removing 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 fewer than 100 years ago that
the disc herniation was named a disc herniation and identified
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 centered
on the disease and tends to focus
on symptom-specific treatment (usually pharmacological or invasive) to remove the cause of pain. Alternative medicine usually
centered on a whole-body approach and has a tendency to concentrate on treatments that stimulate
the body’s capability to heal itself (herbal supplements, Reiki, chiropractic, Tai chi, acupuncture, etc.) to reduce pain. (3) Today, integrative medicine is growing 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 causing
low back pain, neck pain, leg pain and/or arm pain, gentle flexion distraction
spinal manipulation is easing. A new study states that horizontal traction was very helpful
in producing a significant enlargement of
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. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center concentrates
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, opens the
spinal canal area by 28%, and increases disc height by 17%. (6)
Manahawkin Chiropractic Center relieves back pain due to disc herniation quite
effectively.
CONTACT Manahawkin Chiropractic 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 Manahawkin chiropractic care
appointment with Manahawkin Chiropractic 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 suitable treatment possible.