chiropractor for bulged discs?

[shirlene29]

lol@ woodland spirits

I love you both...hahaha

I'm not down with any sort of surgery especially given he doesn't have a single other problem area in his spine
even with the train wreck my spine is I've never seriously considered surgery for it


the SI joint though...what say you?

Im wondering if its a contributing factor but to be honest I dont really know how much a male pelvis flexes with movement

so help me out on this one

I dont know...there, I said it...I dont know!

 

[musclemom]

And if my password was working I could link you the chocrane review at says on avg it's no better an conserv tx

When you get a chance check out the link I gave Shirl, seriously. Very interesting shit.

 

[shirlene29]

obv goal is to get the pain/stenosis gone from the L5 nerve..
and totally serious question....let him hang from the pull up bar to relieve some of the compression? think it will give any relief?

 

[shirlene29]

luckily no one favors fushions around here anyway
discectomies are pretty popular tho...but I dont know anyone whos had any long term relief from it either

 

[musclemom]

lol@ woodland spirits

I love you both...hahaha

I'm not down with any sort of surgery especially given he doesn't have a single other problem area in his spine
even with the train wreck my spine is I've never seriously considered surgery for it

the SI joint though...what say you?

Im wondering if its a contributing factor but to be honest I dont really know how much a male pelvis flexes with movement

so help me out on this one

I dont know...there, I said it...I dont know!

I'm no help, I have a sacralized lordotic vertebra. I've lived with varying degrees of discomfort to pain in that region since my teens. It even eludes my chiro because it's natural state is imbalanced. Only thing I've ever found that helped was the Tempurpedic mattress and weight lifting (deadlifts). You strengthen the core the spine feels 100% better.

Now I can't weight train, R&R and muscle relaxants and lots of vodka.

Good chiro and PT, maybe acupuncture as well, seriously. And tell him to stop being such a pussy If he can walk, control his anus, and has feeling in his pecker and all the toes on both feet shit ain't all that bad!

 

[shirlene29]

I did actually ask him if he could feel his t-bag...then informed him a mutual friend of ours couldnt so he should fucking man up

^^ troo story

feel bad for the fucker tho....not goin to the gym is making him (and me) crazy

 

[billfred]

Chiropractors are Gods in my book. I feel better every time I go to one. Try a Soft Touch one if you have in your area.

 

[musclemom]

feel bad for the fucker tho....not goin to the gym is making him (and me) crazy

Believe me, I can relate to that.

Like Chris said, over the long haul, non invasive treatment for chronic/degenerative spinal conditions has a solid track record.

The thing is, once you cut, you get scar tissue Scar tissue can create new and improved problems over the original condition.

 

[shirlene29]

yeah...thats what happened to the ex...it just kept going to hell and now hes got a million scars and probs from it

he went to one of the best neurosurgeons in the northeast too

 

[billfred]

The doctor may bash me but if you get surgery for what is essentially a chronic/degenerative back condition you run the risk of being fucked for life, especially the younger you are. More than 1/2 of them eventually end up on the surgical table within 10 years for other surgery at another level (usually if you have surgery in your lumbar region, you'll eventually start having problems in your cervical region and vice versa). I want to emphasize this is NOT true for severe spine trauma but I've literally typed it MORE times than I can count. Good doctors know this to be true and admit it. Good doctors, as long as a patient hasn't lost function, will do EVERYTHING to keep them off the table because of this fact.

Second. If you have a choice in the matter NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER get spinal surgery from an orthopedic surgeon!!! EVER!!! There is one simple reason for this, a neurosurgeon will NEVER touch the back again anywhere near the original site of surgery if there are problems down the road. Again, I have typed doctors saying this, literally: "Since the original surgery was done by Dr. XYZ, an orthopedic surgeon, I am unable to help Mr. Jones and he will need to return to see Dr. XYZ or another orthopedic surgeon."

For goodness sake, find a chiropractor, find a sports medicine guy, get PT, find an acupuncturist, get him a girdle, stop all workouts, take drugs, and get a better mattress, give non invasive shit a try for at LEAST six months, but if nothing else, the last damn thing you ever want to do is let an orthopedic surgeon cut a back in what is essentially elective surgery.

Oh, and Shirl, I meant to show this to you way back when, I forgot. You just reminded me:

A new hope for back pain sufferers? - CBS News

Here's a pertinent excerpt:



/rant

MM - thanks for that. I found it very interesting. I forwarded to a friend of mine that had a vertebrate fused.

Stick around - miss you!!