“You have to know where you came from to know where you are
going.”
It is true for all of us individually,
domestically, and professionally. It’s true for
medicine – allopathic and alternative - too. It is true for the understanding
of the disc and the spine it holds. Awareness
of Montreal back pain keeps evolving, and
one of the foremost milestones was rather recent
in the history of man. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic shares
old and new findings on the disc
and the back pain it causes as well as the
Montreal chiropractic care that reduces that back
pain.
HISTORY OF THE DISC HERNIATION
The understanding of disc herniation as a
compressive force on spinal nerves resulting in back pain and leg
pain is a relatively recent phenomenon. 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 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) 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 published the first report of surgically getting
rid of disc herniations in 19 patients. (2) (Unless it is
published, it did not 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 known
as such! Allopathy and alternative medicine like chiropractic have risen
to the challenge in those intervening years.
ALLOPATHY and ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Allopathic medicine is usually focused
on the disease and tends to concentrate
on symptom-specific treatment (usually pharmacological or invasive) to get
rid of the cause of pain. Alternative medicine usually
focused on a whole-body approach and has a tendency to focus on treatments that stimulate
the body’s capability to heal itself (herbal supplements, Reiki, chiropractic, Tai chi, acupuncture, etc.) to reduce pain. (3) Nowadays, integrative medicine is escalating in its appreciation and utilization 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 report states that horizontal traction was quite helpful
in producing a significant increase in
average lumbar spine disc height and decrease in lumbar
lordosis. (4) Such is available with the Cox Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management utilizing long-y axis distraction. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic 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 is shown 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 enlarges disc height by 17%. (6)
Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic eases back pain due to disc herniation very
effectively.
CONTACT Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic
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 Montreal chiropractic care
appointment with Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic today. Together, we will figure
out 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.