Welcome to Cloverleaf Chiropractic Show. Today we're going to talk about a disc problem; herniated disc. How can we heal from a herniated disc? How to get better. How to fix it from scratch.
Welcome to the Cloverleaf Chiropractic Show, a podcast advocating wellness, life and healing from within. With 38 years in practice, 50,000 patients and over 1 million chiropractic adjustments, here's your host, Dr. Daniel Abeckjerr.
My name is Dr. Daniel Abeckjerr. I'm a Doctor of Chiropractic, and today we're going to talk about health and wellness. So stay tuned and we're doing the show to educate the public on health and wellness and how to get better from different conditions. But today we're going to focus on a herniated disc. A herniated disc can heal if you take care of it the right way, if you manage it properly.
A herniated disc or a bulging disc. And there's many different names for this condition. Some people call it a bulge, some people call it a protrusion on a disk, there's different degrees of the damage done to a disc. So person suffering with this condition may not even know they have it when it's initially in the beginning when it starts.
And eventually a can get aggravated, it can get worse, and eventually can develop into severe pain; excruciating pain. Herniated disc occurs when the disc or the rubber pad or the cushion in between the bone which is made out of cartilage can be damaged from a tear or from coming out or going out of place.
So often the disc presses on the nerve, and that can cause the pain. Initially it can be minor, but then it can become severe. So a disc can herniate by stretching or moving out of position, by lifting a heavy object improperly, by getting into an accident or some kind of trauma; car accident or fall or just twisting the wrong way. Some people will just sneeze and a disc can go out of place. So, or sometimes it's just age. As you get older, you can develop a herniated disc.
So no matter how it happens, it's painful and no one should suffer from this for a long time. So there is something that can be done, there's ways to repair a herniated disc that doesn't involve surgery.
So depending on the location, it can cause different kinds of problems. It can affect your range of motion, it can affect your movement, it can affect anything that you do. So symptoms of a herniated disc can originate in the location where the disc is, but it can also travel to where the nerve goes to.