Herniated disc problems are not so uncommon nowadays. While serious situations of back pain hinders the normal lifestyle of a person, rare cases of herniated disc when left unattended lead to inability or it may even be life threatening. There are certain symptoms, after which you should seek immediate medical attention with doctors of herniated disc treatment Greenville like increasing weakness of legs, loss of bowel and bladder control, unexplained weight loss accompanied by pain, unbearable stomach pain with back pain, fever with severe pain on which common fever reducers are not working.
But if your pain is as old as 6-7 weeks, there is a possibility to cure the problem completely with alternative methods. Non-surgical methods are also getting famous for Sciatica treatment Raleigh. Initially you can tryover the counter medicines to relieve herniated disc pain but after that you should consider following for complete resolution of your problem.
When pain is severe and symptoms persist for over 2 weeks, you should try chiropractic manipulation. The goal of this therapy is to reduce pain and bring back the patient to normal level of functioning. Chiropractors work on spinal and proximal structural alignment. They do some manipulations to alleviate the pain without surgery and chiropractic treatments gain high success rates in treating the disorders of nervous and musculoskeletal system.
There are anti-inflammatory medicines that work well on reducing the pain and inflammation due to herniated disc. This is quite convenient for patients who are comfortable popping up pills rather than going out for physiotherapy sessions. According to a recent survey over 30 million of the world population takes non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicines for reducing inflammation which is important to reduce pain.
These injections may achieve strong effect on inflammation but their use is a bit riskier. They are effective to relieve pain for duration of one week to one year. Up to 3 epidural injections can be taken in a period of one year. The patients who do not prefer injections go for oral steroid medicines.
