Treating Your Slip Disc
A herniated or slip disc is a problem that refers to a rubbery disc between your spinal bones. A disc herniates when its jelly-like nucleus pushes against its outer ring due to wear and tear or a sudden injury. This pressure against the outer ring may cause lower back pain and cause slip disc problems. A herniated disc can be treated with surgery if required, non-surgically, or in some cases, it doesn’t need any treatment at all. Slip disc treatment can be done in many ways.
A slipped disc can cause neurological problems
too, in that case, you should only consider going to your doctor and take it
from there.
- Rest.
Getting proper rest
will give your herniated disc time to heal and is recommended by every doctor.
- Physical
therapy.
Basic physical
therapy like exercise and stretching would help you relieve pressure on the
nerve root and get you better.
- Chiropractic
adjustment.
A chiropractic
adjustment relieves muscle pressure and is known to help with slip
disc treatment. Low-velocity chiropractic manipulations help people
with no neurological problems
- Heat and
cold therapy.
Heat and cold
therapy is a vastly accepted treatment of bone troubles. Ice packs and heat
packs help with loosening tight muscles, reduce swelling and inflammation, and
pain.
- Medication.
If the pain gets
too much and surgery isn’t an option, you can manage your pain with
painkillers. You can ask your doctor to prescribe some according to your pain
level.
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