“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 knowledge
of the disc and the spine it holds. Knowledge
of Williamson back pain continues to evolve, and
one of the foremost milestones was relatively new
in our human history. Apple Country Chiropractic discloses
past and current findings on the disc
and the back pain it brings about as well as the
Williamson chiropractic care that reduces 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 phenomenon. Keep
in mind that the spine changes as it matures. The spinal disc’s shape and tissue
composition changes. The center part of the disc,
nucleus pulposus, changes and gets smaller. (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 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 taking out 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 risen
to the challenge in that time.
ALLOPATHY and ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Allopathic medicine is usually focused
on the disease and has a tendency to focus
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 reduce pain. (3) Nowadays, integrative medicine is escalating in its appreciation 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 quite helpful
in producing a significant enlargement of
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. Apple Country Chiropractic 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 shown 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)
Apple Country Chiropractic eases back pain due to disc herniation quite
effectively.
CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic
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 Williamson chiropractic care
appointment with Apple Country Chiropractic today. Together, we’ll determine where you’ve been on your back pain journey
and make a course of correction and control for its
future with the most proper treatment possible.