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Herniated Disc Care
Herniated Disc Care / DiagnosisMost patients who are diagnosed with a herniated disc receive a strict warning from their physicians that they have been anatomically altered. Maybe the doctors do not come right out and say that their spines will never be the same again, but most commonly, advice is given to take it easy and be careful with the painful area of the back. While this advice is wise, it must be carefully administered to prevent the nocebo effect of the diagnosis from setting the stage for a chronic disc pain syndrome. Doctors should give honest and objective recommendations on how to care for a disc injury based on fact… not the potential for profit.Herniated Disc Care / FactsHerniated discs rarely cause chronic pain and will usually either be completely asymptomatic or will heal on their own within 6 to 8 weeks. Patients who fear the long term effects of a disc herniation are far more prone to develop ongoing pain due to psychosomatic perpetuation of the symptoms. Doctors who speak of doom and gloom when discussing a patient’s disc condition are likely to create a real problem in the patient’s mind, setting the stage for lasting pain to occur. Patients should instead be reassured and offered the hope of completely overcoming the pain in a short time frame and with no lasting effects. It is no surprise that in a variety of studies, back pain patients who seek no medical treatment at all for their pain resolve faster and more often than patients who undergo any type of therapy. When research shows that NO TREATMENT gives better results than TREATMENT, it is difficult to believe that doctors are really helping the average back pain sufferer at all…Herniated Disc Care / Mind and BodyThe mind will always seek to develop psychosomatic pain in an area of the body which is perceived to be weak or damaged. This obviously lends credibility to the pain syndrome and makes it seem far more structural and less likely to be perceived for what it truly is… a harmless ischemic condition. Patients who exercise TOO MUCH CARE for an actual or perceived disc condition are certainly falling into this trap head over heels. Learning the facts about herniated discs using knowledge therapy will help to enlighten frightened patients and dispel the nocebo effect provided by the medical diagnosis.My Experience with Herniated Disc CareFor 18 years, I suffered with serious flare ups of pain supposedly caused by a herniated L4/L5 disc and a ruptured L5/S1 disc. I feared any activity which might aggravate the disc pain, causing a sudden acute flare-up which could land me in bed for a week. Of course, the greater the fear, the more tension I suffered in my body, escalating the actual ischemic pain syndrome which was actually responsible for my pain. Naturally, it was just a matter of time before another attack occurred with devastating effect, due to the fear and anxiety caused by my fear and frustration with the condition.I tried all the spine care and herniated disc treatment regimes imaginable without any success. Worse yet, my pain grew more severe year by year. I was terrified that I would wind up completely disabled long before my time… I am extremely lucky to be one of the people who actually finally beat their chronic back pain. I owe my success to learning the facts about herniated discs and using this knowledge to simply end the pain. Does it sound simple? Yes, and it is… If you are battling a herniated disc or degenerative disc disease, you owe it to yourself and the ones you love to consider knowledge therapy as the next treatment option. Give it a try. It is free (or low cost) and might just be the last therapy you will ever need for your perceived disc pain… You have nothing at all to lose… EXCEPT YOUR PAIN! 8/3/09 Revised 12/22/09
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