Top 5 Ways To Help A Disc Problem Without Surgery | El Paso Manual Physical Therapy

Are you suffering from a disc problem in you lower back? Have you been told, or you think that you might have a herniated disc, a bulging disc, or a slipped disc? I'm going to cover with you, the top five things that you can do to help a herniated disc, or some sort of disc problem without surgery.

Number One, Keep Active.
A lot of people think that resting the disc will allow it to go away and heal and get better. To a degree that is true. But when I say keep active, there is a disclaimer in that. You want to still do your normal activities, your day-to-day things that you have to do to take care of yourself. You want to ideally go to work and take care of your life. But you want to avoid doing activities that aggravate your back problem. You don't want your disk to get more flared up.

Number Two, Take Beaks
The second way you can help your disk, so that you can avoid surgery, is related to the first, you need to take breaks. There might be situations where you need to be on your feet for a while, or you just have to do that activity that begins to bother your back eventually. What you should do, in those scenarios, is just take a break. See how much activity you can tolerate, lets say 10-15 minutes, maybe longer. Then take a 5 to 10-minute break.

Number Three, Wearing A Back Brace
The third way you can help your disc is by wearing a back brace. Now, let me caution you on this. This is not a good long-term solution, but it's a good short-term solution. I'm talking about the braces that you can get just about any store like a Walmart or Walgreens. You can find them online as well.

Number Four, Using Offloading Devices
The fourth way is by using offloading devices. The most common is in inversion table. This is not a long term solution either, much like the brace. It's a similar idea to the brace it's taking pressure off and avoid aggravating motions to the disk. But when you hang upside down on an inversion table, as long as you are doing it properly, and relaxing the muscles around your back, and trying to hang out there as long as you can, you are going to take pressure off the disk, which is usually beneficial for a disc.

Number Five, Talking To A Specialist
The fifth way to making sure that this problem gets better without having surgery, is to talk to a specialist like myself. A specialist, physical therapist, or somebody that you see best fit that is isn't going to push you to go get a surgery right away. What we know is that in about 9 out of 10 disc problems, they can heal without surgery.

If you're thinking about using medication, that's potentially a dangerous thing. There are lots of side effects and certain organs can be affected long term even in the short term. We know that with ibuprofen, it can tear up your stomach if it's consistently used for several weeks at a time. So just please be careful with using medications. But I bring it up to you as to give you the truth to give you all the information that I can about all these reasons to use medication. So that you can make the best decisions for your health today.

I hope this list benefited you. I hope that you can find something useful in it, at the very least I hope that you learn something that you can pass on to somebody else.

If you feel like you want to talk to us more about the possibility of hiring us to help you with your disc problem, we'd love to talk you, you can start with requesting a Complimentary Discovery Session https://www.epmanualphysicaltherapy.com/virtual-physical-therapy-services/

I hope that we can be a part of your successful recovery story really soon. Have the best day.

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