Symptoms Of Disc Herniation

The symptoms for having herniated disc are heavily depends on how serious your back condition is. You might feel nothing at all- no pain no numbness in spite of having a damaged lower back. Or if you’re unlucky enough, the herniated disc bulges out from between the vertebrae and pressing on a nerve, you will feel constant numbness or pain at the weakness points of your back.

Identify Your Back Pain

Herniation normally happens at 3 parts of your back. If you’re having constant chronic back pain, the first thing you should do is to identify where the pain comes from.

Upper back: If herniation happens at the upper back, you will feel intense pain at your front thigh when you sit or stand. The intensity of the pain highly depends on how serious is your herniation condition.

Neck: Or we call that the cervical spine area. You would feel numbness or electric shock pain at your shoulder or chest. Not often but the constant surprise visiting is able to ruin your day off.

Lower back (Lumbar area): Among the disc herniation cases, this might be the most commonly seen among the Americans. There is a very high percentage lower back herniation would develop into Sciatica.

What is Sciatica?

If you’re feeling constant pain at your lower back, hip, tailbone or feeling long lasting numbness at your leg or hip after sitting for a short while, these are the symptoms of Sciatica.

In order words, if you’re diagnosed a Sciatica patient like me, then you’re in big trouble. You wouldn’t be able to sit long at the same position because your lower back pain would alarm and to shake off the pain, the only effective way that shows immediate relief is to stand and walk around. The another unlucky part of having Sciatica is that you’re not allowed to walk or run too long either because the pain would remind you of its existence.

Good Effective Treatment For Disc Herniation

There are way too many kinds of early treatments for disc herniation. Look, the reason I said “early treatments” is because treatments like hot and cold treatment, massaging, taking painkillers or NSAIDs are only effective in easing off your pain at the early stage of disc herniation.

As you can see, these treatments are merely teaching you how to relieve your pain but not to treat the cause. How long do you think you can continue taking these medications?

If you’re REALLY sick of taking painkillers, massage therapy, reflexology or any kind of methods which are useless in curing your herniated disc problem, it is time to try some therapy treatments which is very focused to the disc herniation problem.