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Pinched Nerve Therapy
Pinched nerve therapy is often a complete waste of time, depending on the modality selected and the accuracy of the diagnosis. A
pinched nerve
is an anatomical syndrome in which some physical condition causes the nerve to be compressed.
Nerve compression
leads to a reduced neurological signal, typically followed by pain,
tingling,
weakness
or
numbness.
Several treatment options will lead to relief from pinched nerve pain, while others will do nothing at all, except put money in the care provider’s pocket.

Problems with Pinched Nerve Therapy
The reason why many therapy options are ineffective is twofold. First, given the fact that a pinched nerve condition does indeed exist,
symptomatic treatment
will do nothing to change the reason for the neurological compression. In other terms, most therapies designed to relieve pain will not alter the fact that some structure or process is cutting off the normal nerve signal. Therefore, the condition will continue until the patient tires of the symptomatic treatment and chooses to pursue a definite cure. The most common of these potential cures are
spinal decompression
and correction via
back surgery.
Some patients find the manual manipulations of
chiropractic
care are also a useful method of resolving minor nerve compression issues.The second and primary reason why many therapy options have poor results for the resolution of
pinched nerve pain
is simple misdiagnosis of the actual source of the symptoms. Many patients are diagnosed with a pinched nerve simply because they are suffering from symptoms commonly associated with neurological compression. There is no proof that a pinched nerve exists, but the diagnosis is made, nonetheless.
Oxygen deprivation back pain
will often mimic the symptoms of a pinched nerve exactly.
Ischemia
can cause all the pain and related symptoms provided by compression due to a physical anatomical source. Worse than that, oxygen deprivation can affect a regional area involving many nerves, which often accounts for widespread nerve pain in a large section of the body.
Effective Pinched Nerve Therapy
Obviously, achieving an accurate diagnosis is the most important factor in successfully treating a pinched nerve. If the diagnosis is correct, then it is simply a matter of choosing a therapy option which will lead to a cure for the condition, rather than merely providing
pain management.
The majority of unresolved nerve pain conditions are actually incorrectly identified ischemic back pain syndromes, most often caused by some psychosomatic process. Nerves are extremely sensitive tissues and are greatly influenced by even miniscule levels of oxygen deprivation. Many patients with severe
psychosomatic back pain
display large areas of significant oxygen deprivation which would certainly explain why their pain is so incredibly fierce.
Recommendation on Pinched Nerve Therapy
Remember that any medical therapy option usually entails ongoing treatments. If you are involved in long term care for a nerve related pain syndrome, you must ask yourself, “WHAT IS THE GOAL HERE?” You can not simply endure an endless variety of
back pain treatment
modalities which will not correct the nerve compression condition. Remember that many cases of nerve pain are actually
misdiagnosed
versions of psychological back pain. The symptoms are identical, but the causation is completely different. This clarifies why so many post-operative
back pain patients
continue to have severe symptoms even after the suspected nerve compression culprit has been surgically corrected. Before even considering surgery, I recommend trying
knowledge therapy
first. This is the same program which cured my 18 years' worth of horrific back pain. You have nothing to lose by trying… EXCEPT the PAIN!
Pinched Nerve Therapy to Back Pain Home
10/20/08 Revised 10/23/09

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