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Herniated Disc Scapegoat

Herniated Disc Scapegoat A herniated disc scapegoat is a very common occurrence within the back pain diagnostic industry. A scapegoat is something which takes the blame for a problem, even though it did not actually cause it. When it comes to herniated discs, they are often blamed for chronic back pain, when in reality, they are rarely the actual source of symptoms.

What is a Herniated Disc Scapegoat?

Herniated discs have a fearsome reputation which is largely undeserved. Most herniated discs do not cause any pain at all and even those which are symptomatic, typically resolve on their own, without any treatment, within 8 weeks. Very few disc herniations go on to create long term chronic back pain conditions. However, disc conditions are often blamed when back pain exists coincidently with a herniation. In these cases, the disc is the scapegoat and the patient is led into a usually ineffective treatment regimen which might last for years. Many of these patients never even consider that the disc might not be the actual source of their pain, despite numerous unsuccessful therapy attempts and possibly even a failed herniated disc surgery. In essence, they might question the validity of the treatments, but never question the accuracy of the diagnosis. This is what dooms them to experience continuing pain…

Herniated Disc Scapegoat Effects

When a herniated disc is mistakenly identified as the cause of symptoms, it can have dire consequences on the patient. No treatment will cure pain if it is targeting the incorrect causation of symptoms. This makes sense. Patients will spend vast amounts of time and money looking to resolve their disc pain, when all along the actual cause of the symptoms has nothing at all to do with the poor maligned disc! It is a travesty of medical care…

Herniated discs are certainly not the only back pain scapegoats, but they are the most common. Other conditions often mistakenly identified as the cause of chronic back pain include: facet joint syndrome, spinal stenosis, pinched nerves, sciatica scoliosis, kyphosis, lordosis, osteoarthritis, degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis, piriformis syndrome and sacroiliac joint dysfunction.

Herniated Disc Scapegoat Advice

If you have long term pain diagnosed as being caused by a herniated or degenerated disc, then you owe it to yourself to consider another possible explanation. There is a very good chance that many failed treatments might indicate a misdiagnosed disc pain condition. Most of these pain syndromes are the direct result of ischemia, not the scapegoat disc. Luckily, once the actual source of pain is truly identified, the treatment is easy and effective. Knowledge therapy can make short work of these oxygen deprivation pain syndromes, enacting a real and permanent cure in most patients.

This is the exact therapy I used to end my 18 years of suffering at the hands of what I thought was herniated disc pain and degenerative disc disease. However, my pain, like many others, turned out to be ischemic and finally resolved after using knowledge therapy to uncover the actual psycho-emotional source.

Herniated Disc Scapegoat to Herniated Disc Home
7/12/08 Revised 12/9/09


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