Can Medications, Pain Relievers Or Pain Management Procedures Be The Absolute Worst Thing For Serious Herniated Discs or Serious Neck & Back Pain? Part II
A brief word or two on epidurals and pain management procedures today.
First of all, like drugs, epidurals cannot and will not heal anything. The reduce pain in about 50% of the cases. However, pain relief is usually short term in many cases.
Number two. It requires invasive needling of the spinal cord and “epidural space” or the little channel between the spinal cord itself and the internal bony aspect of the spinal canal.
Now, I am not against this procedure in and of itself. But is not an answer to “discogenic” pain or pain originating from disc herniation, bulge and the like. It can be helpful to patients who are in acute distress and cannot even be placed in a prone, lying down position on a spinal decompression machine to treat the disc properly or to those that have let the condition run wild and can barely move without pain.
But keep in mind that an epidural is just the use of a “liquefied” medication that is injected in the area of the swollen or herniated disc so as to bathe it in anti-inflammatory medicine and calm it down…temporarily. That’s it. No healing will be done by an epidural procedure.
The bad news is two fold:
- If fools your body your better or “healed” and you continue with harmful activity and damage the disc further….much further. Quite similar to the affect of oral medications.
- Some feel that too many epidural injections can actually damage the outer shell or “annular” portion of the disc and thus weaken it further.
Both of these downside affects will often lead to significantly more serious issues and could possibly lead to permenant negative changes in the disc tissue.
So, only engage in these procedures with great caution and only if absolutely necessary. I have a pain management doc as part of my team and these procedures are applied very judiciously for our patients.
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About Dr. Podell, DC: Dr. Dave Podell, DC has been in active practice for over 25 years and has seen countless numbers of the most difficult and previously failed cases. As the clinic director of the Watefront Spine Institute in Edgewater, New Jersey, just minutes from the GW Bridge, Lincoln Tunnel and midtown Manhattan, Dr. Podell, DC runs one of the Northeast’s most advanced and evolutionary multi-disciplinary clinics for the treatment of disc herniation and associated ailments. Dr. Podell, DC sits on the advisory board of Spinal Aid Centers Of America and trains other health care providers in the science and art of non surgical spinal decompression in his Edgewater facility. He continues to train and advance his clinic’s state of the art spinal rehabilitation programs and is known nationwide in his field. He is additionally certified in neurodiagnostic evaluations, Spinal Manipulation Under Anasthesia and Disability Impairment rating. In addition to NSSD, he had received advanced training in Spinal Chiropractic Biophysics, Active Therapeutic Techniques, MedX and Spine Force Spinal Rehabilitation, Extremity manipulation, orthopedics and neurology.
