For a year, it was so bad i could not turn over in bed

At night.

Radiating pain, numbness, pins & needles, muscle loss , range of motion loss....

Ibuprophen, physical therapy, generic oxy on a very limited basis when it was unbearable, when all that failed I ...

Finally got a steroid shot via a real time XRAY by a great sports pain medical doctor..he literally healed it by the next freakin day...pretty much a miracle in my book....

The doctor made you fill out a five page pain questionaire in exacting detail and description.

That doctor was amazing.

F@CK CHIROPRACTORS....they can cause severe

And irreversible damage. Stay away from those QUACKS.

Do not ever twist w/ your feet planted firmly.

It is the worst thing you can do...that means avoid ALL RACKET SPORTS...because those movements are constant in tennis...

And stuff....

I get great relief though.

+1

first thing is the MRI to determine the damage... if it's not ruptured get an inversion table and hang upside down when ever you think about it.. all the exercise mentioned above is good too but be careful...

Good luck man... avoid the knife if possible.... 👍

You must have different info than I do... when I google it everything I find says a herniation and rupture are the same, but a bulge is different. Ah well, it's not like I'm a doctor. I just play one on discount cigar forums... 😉

Is that like a happy ending?

no that's the massage.

I get accupuncture too. I think it works for pain and inflamation. Once you jam that needle in the pee hole the swelling goes down right away.

b.s.

i have met plenty of good ones. the financial incentive argument only applies to dishonest ones and the same can be said of physiatrists and other docs who own MRI, diagnostic, surgical and p.t. facilities.

This would allow the field to fill with charlatans and essentially faith healers.

Lets not get into the fact that they think they're healing something by simply cracking your back one way or the other.

now you tell me! I've been following your advice column for years.

perhaps they both address tears but one is more severe? And I am the anti -google guy so I am relying on memory of doctor talks from 20 years ago...anyway, I can walk on my hind legs now and play golf poorly again.

yep... when the crab meat finally engulfed my spinal nerves I went down and went to the ER... they said they had given me enough morphine to put down a horse but it didn't cut the pain a bit... took them about 20 minutes to get me back into the car.. then they prescribed PT... I didn't get better and went to a different ER.. it was there I found out how bad I was and that the PT could have made me worse... 🤦

Remind to never go out binge drinking with you.

Surely you jest- at least here in Florida where chiros are licensed and controled by the state like MD's and DO's are. Is there quantification of how any other physician or surgeon have helped their patients? "cracking your back" is the greatest misunderstanding of what most chiros do and is laughable. Very few limit their practices to just that. Its the ones who think they can cure any problem with adjustment that give the rest a bad rap.

bulge = bulge

herniation = bulge which protrudes

herniated nucleus pulposis = tear in anular rring such that the center of the disk protrudes out of the disk space

It's is not one of the above that counts, but what problem it may be causing. For example, is it pressing on a nerve or the spinal chord?

Bulges in and of themselves mean nothing. In fact, they are normally due degenerative changes and studies have found them readily in those who never had neck or back pain in their life.

We were trying to find a difference between Herniation and Rupture.