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Herniated Disc Pain Management
Herniated Disc Pain Management / DrugsThe most common form of symptomatic pain management is accomplished using drugs. Powerful prescription medications can relieve all but the worst back pain symptoms. However, this type of herniated disc relief often comes at a tremendous cost. Drugs are an extremely risky therapy method which can produce a host of known and unknown side effects in treated patients. Drugs are generally bad for you and pose significant dangers to your health. Pain medications, in particular, demonstrate both detrimental physical effects, as well as the very real hazard of chemical dependency. Gaining pain relief at the cost of your job, family, future or very life is certainly a very high price to pay…Epidural injections eliminate the chances of addiction associated with oral pain medications, but still might create side effects or enact only short term relief. Herniated Disc Pain Management / AlternativeComplementary medicine encompasses many individual treatment modalities. Some of these methods are extremely effective at reducing pain and can make life far better without the burden and risk of pharmaceutical methods. Some of the best of these alternative pain relief modalities include:* Heat and Ice * TENS * Massage Therapy * Exercise Herniated Disc Pain Management / SolutionWhile short term symptomatic treatment is fine while you figure out the best way to CURE you disc pain, it is not a good long term solution. Patients who give up on a cure and simply pursue symptomatic relief are doomed to live in pain forever, as well as shoulder the considerable costs involved in ongoing treatment. I always advise seeking an end to your pain, starting with the simplest and most effective modalities. When it comes to herniated disc symptoms, I recommend knowledge therapy as the best of these permanent pain relievers and spinal decompression as a good back up plan. While surgery is considered a traditional means of resolving disc pain, it often worsens the condition and can cause irreparable damage to the healthy tissues of the back and spine. I almost always recommend patients to AVOID herniated disc surgery whenever possible…Remember, life is too short to spend everyday in pain. While relief might seem acceptable, a true cure is always IDEAL. 7/24/08 Revised 12/4/09
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