West Des Moines Disc Herniations Can Go Away
“There’s a disc herniation in your spine.” doesn’t have to strike fear in you. Conservative care helps lessen pain and even reduce the disc herniation. Surgery is not always required. Conservative care has been demonstrated to shrink disc herniation and its associated back pain. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa utilizes gentle spinal manipulation as part of the overall West Des Moines chiropractic treatment plan.
DISC HERNIATIONS RESORB, GO AWAY, WITH CONSERVATIVE CARE: 70.39% WITHIN 6 MONTHS
A recent research meta-analysis report, the top-level review of medical literature on a specific topic, detailed 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 frequency of resorption was higher for a ruptured, non-contained disc (fragment) than a contained disc. Resorption rates differed by country from 60.68% in China to 83.52% in Korea. (The US resorption rate was 61.66%.) The report said that the resorption process mainly happened within 6 months of conservative treatment. (1) Another study of patient clinical outcomes in a single care center were evaluated for response to care of giant lumbar disc herniations. 41% of these patients’ "giant lumbar" discs appeared on imaging to have resorbed 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 underwent conservative care had greater than 30% resorption. 25% experienced greater than 50% resorption. The authors of this study stated that as long as there is no sign of progressive neurological deficit or cauda equina syndrome, conservative care was preferred as resorption was more likely with these disc protrusions that were in the spinal canal. (2) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa agrees that when there is no sign of nerve injury and/or cauda equina symptoms, conservative treatment - like our gentle, safe chiropractic spinal manipulation - is helpful. Starting with the initial, thorough examination of symptoms to the care at every visit, our West Des Moines back pain and neck pain patients with disc herniations often get relief and a decrease in their fear of a 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 relieve a patient with a large disc herniation.
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