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Key points about treating pain caused by a slipped disc.
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Cause, Symptoms and Treatments for Prolapsed Disc
Do you experience a shooting back pain when you move your back, cough or sneeze, but subside a little when you try to lie down?
Do you experience a shooting back pain when you move your back, cough or sneeze, but subside a little when you try to lie down?
Stunned by the crawling pain from your buttocks down the back of your leg and sometimes, even further down your foot
commonly known as sciatica pain?
Stunned by the crawling pain from your buttocks down the back of your leg and sometimes, even further down your foot commonly known as sciatica pain?
Do you experience a shooting back pain when you move your back, cough or sneeze, but subside a little when you try to lie down?
Stunned by the crawling pain from your buttocks down the back of your leg and sometimes, even further down your foot
commonly known as sciatica pain?
How about those needles and pins sensations that numbs or weakens your buttocks, leg or
foot?
Stunned by the crawling pain from your buttocks down the back of your leg and sometimes, even further down your foot commonly known as sciatica pain?
Do you experience a shooting back pain when you move your back, cough or sneeze, but subside a little when you try to lie down?
Stunned by the crawling pain from your buttocks down the back of your leg and sometimes, even further down your foot
commonly known as sciatica pain?
How about those needles and pins sensations that numbs or weakens your buttocks, leg or
foot?
Or an occasional difficulty to relieve yourself or trouble with your regular bowel, a rare
disorder called cauda equina syndrome perhaps?
You could be suffering from the symptoms of a prolapsed disc…
Which is usually confused with a common low back pain from
strenuous activity or heavy lifting, on the other hand, 1 out of 20 back
pain cases is actually a case of prolapsed disc wherein people
under the age of 30 to 50 years old usually gets it, most especially
women.
Prolapsed disc also known as slipped disc or
herniated disc is a condition where a disc in the spine develops a rift that leads to a bulging disc causing you to feel
back pains as well as pain on other parts of the body.
Prolapsed disc also known as slipped disc or
herniated disc is a condition where a disc in the spine develops a rift that leads to a bulging disc causing you to feel
back pains as well as pain on other parts of the body.
Sciatic nerve for that matter is
usually the affected area
when a slipped disc occurs that
brings sciatic pain running down from the buttocks to the
foot.
Taking that into account, it is still not clear how a person who performs tedious task every day and a person who doesn’t can both develop a prolapse disc. But some of the proven causes are:
Natural fragility of outer part of disc Triggers like sneezing, poor posture, or heavy lifting with improper posture A job that requires a lot of heavy lifting Sitting all day at work Sports that includes strenuous lifting Being obese Heavy smoking Old age
Not to be taken aback, people who suffer from this can undergo physical treatments for their prolapsed disc. A combination of physical therapy like massages and exercises, which
may take about four to six weeks, can help you recover from a slipped disc.
As soon as you can, try to carry on your day to day routines, but do not engage in activities that can aggravate the pain. Nurse your body in order for it to endure your condition but do not
baby the pain. However, when you do take a rest, choose a good mattress, don’t pile on too much pillows and sleep in a comfortable position.
Not to be taken aback, people who suffer from this can undergo physical treatments for their prolapsed disc. A combination of physical therapy like massages and exercises, which
may take about four to six weeks, can help you recover from a slipped disc.
Other individuals find anti-inflammatory painkillers better for them while a stronger painkiller works for other, but you experience constipation when you’re on a stronger painkiller like codeine and for tense cases muscle relaxant are prescribed.
Medication is also another way to battle the pain; paracetamol for four times a day is often times enough for not so severe cases.
For alternative treatment, you may seek a physiotherapist, chiropractor, and osteopath for natural procedures, but of course effects of any kind of treatment vary depending on individual conditions of patients.
When you have tried everything else but nothing seems to work, surgery may be your last resort.
For cases that are not healing with the usual four to six weeks which cuts off the herniated part of the disc. But before your immediate health care professional advices surgery, he will lay all the advantages and disadvantages of it for you to draw a solid decision.
Have you dealt with prolapsed disc?
Still trying to endure the pain?
Dig in, share your experience and you just might find the answer to your problem.
