“You have to know where you came from to know where you are
going.”
It’s true for all of us personally,
domestically, and professionally. It is true for
medicine – allopathic and alternative - too. It’s true for the comprehension
of the disc and the spine it holds. Awareness
of Fort Wayne back pain keeps evolving, and
one of the major milestones was relatively recent
in our human history. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc discloses
past and current discoveries about the disc
and the back pain it brings about as well as the
Fort Wayne chiropractic care that reduces that back
pain.
HISTORY OF THE DISC HERNIATION
The understanding of disc herniation as a
compressive force on spinal nerves causing back pain and leg
pain is a relatively new phenomenon. Remember that the spine changes as it grows older. 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 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 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 tends to focus on treatments that stimulate
the body’s ability to heal itself (herbal supplements, Reiki, chiropractic, Tai chi, acupuncture, etc.) to decrease pain. (3) Today, integrative medicine is growing in its valuing and utilization of the best of both.
CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT FOR DISC HERNIATION
Chiropractic care is all-encompassing
care for spine pain conditions. For the disc herniation producing
low back pain, neck pain, leg pain and/or arm pain, gentle flexion distraction
spinal manipulation is relieving. A new report states that horizontal traction was very effective
in producing a significant increase in
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. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc specializes
in this treatment. Cox Technic is depicted as a non-thrust low
velocity variable amplitude spinal manipulation that takes care of low
back pain non-pharmacologically. It is shown to
reduce pain in chronic low back pain patients. (5) It decreases
intradiscal pressure in the disc to as low as -192mmHg, opens the
spinal canal area by 28%, and increases disc height by 17%. (6)
Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc eases back pain due to disc herniation very
effectively.
CONTACT Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc
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 Fort Wayne chiropractic care
appointment with Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc today. Together, we will figure
out where you have been on your back pain journey
and set a course of correction and control for its
future with the most suitable treatment possible.