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Disc Injury

A disc injury can be a painful experience for any person. Intervertebral discs are the shock absorbers of the spine. They help to cushion the vertebral bones and facilitate spinal movement. Back injury to a spinal disc can take the form of a bulge, herniation or rupture. Disc injuries are far more common than most people would believe. In fact, many people have herniated discs and do not even know it.

New Disc Injury

A traumatic event can cause a disc to herniate, bulging out from its normal spinal position. This bulge may or may not cause related neurological effects on the surrounding spinal nerve roots. In rare circumstances, the bulge might press directly into the spinal nerves causing serious complications, such as cauda equina syndrome.

Most new disc injuries go unnoticed or simply cause minor back pain which may be interpreted, by the patient, as a pulled muscle or overexertion. Some injuries cause severe pain which might alarm a person enough to seek medical treatment. The majority of all disc injuries will resolve all by themselves in a matter of weeks. Some require conservative medical or complementary treatment, but will usually get better in the same time frame. It is very rare for a herniated disc to cause long term physical back pain. However, it is extremely common for a disc injury to take the blame for chronic back pain.

Disc Injury Scapegoat

Back pain scapegoats are spinal conditions which are normal to experience and usually produce little or no actual pain, but are blamed for many long term pain syndromes. Herniated discs are probably the most common of all spinal scapegoats. The symptoms suffered by most patients diagnosed with chronic disc pain just do not make much clinical sense. Most chronic disc pain is blamed on the extruded or bulging disc material causing a pinched nerve. Proven research has concluded that long term compression of a nerve produces a lack of neurological signal, not pain. The result of this continued compression would be numbness, not the frequently blinding pain suffered by many patients. It is clear that the overwhelming percentage of herniated disc conditions exist quite innocently and coincidentally to any pain.

My Experiences with Disc Injury

I suffered with 2 herniated discs (L4/L5 and L5/S1) for 18 years. All of my doctors blamed these discs for the majority of my pain, although many figured my degenerative disc disease and minor scoliosis into the equation as well� but I digress�

I also believed that these discs were the source of my pain. I tried all the usual back pain treatments, except back surgery, yet found absolutely no substantial pain relief. Worse of all, my symptoms steadily worsened and I almost became resolved to a life of progressive pain and eventual disability. Being a martial arts instructor and aficionado, this was about the most devastating fate I could imagine.

Well, I got tired of playing the poor helpless victim and decided to take action against my debilitating pain. I spent long hours reading and researching all about my back pain conditions. I learned so much and soon the hours turned to days, then weeks, then years. Along the way, I learned exactly how to cure my own pain and succeeded in doing so 100% in a matter of 2 months (give or take). I realized that my disc pain was nothing but a fallacy. I still had the herniated discs, but the pain was long gone. The truth about disc pain no longer frightened me. In fact, the truth set me free from the pain and suffering. Disc pain is rarely anything more than a temporary result of injury. Chronic disc pain is almost always a psychological pain syndrome based upon repressed emotional issues and/or diagnostic nocebo effect. Learn this simple truth and be free from your pain�FOREVER.

Disc Injury to Back Pain Home 5/18/07 Revised 8/3/08