Juneau Thoracic Disc Herniation and Abdominal Pain
Abdominal pain due to a spinal disc herniation? Yes. It’s real. A few patients with a thoracic disc herniation experience a peculiar abdominal bulge. It’s rather rare, but your Juneau chiropractor is aware of its possibility and affiliation with a thoracic disc herniation as its origin. Aurora Chiropractic Center is familiar with the intricacy of a thoracic disc herniation surgery and offers conservative, gentle care to ease pain for many such patients.
ABDOMINAL PAIN WITH THORACIC DISC HERNIATION
Thoracic radiculopathy is extremely rare fortunately, but it can cause quite a bit of pain and interesting symptoms related to the abdomen. A case that came out recently was described in the medical literature. A 52 year old patient who presented with severe right flank pain and abdominal pain. The treating physicians diagnosed her with a T9-10 thoracic disc herniation and proposed an invasive surgery. (1) Another set of physicians wrote about a patient with unilateral, single-sided abdominal wall bulging and thoracic spine radicular pain due to a lateral disc herniation at T11-12 that returned with bilateral disc prolapse and motor deficits. This was an all the more unusual type of thoracic disc herniation according to the physicians. (2) Surgeons are ready to do surgery for usual and unusual cases of thoracic disc herniation if the patient is so inclined.
SURGERY FOR THORACIC DISC HERNIATION
Surgery for thoracic disc herniation are complex and quite invasive due to its being so close to the spinal cord. Most thoracic disc herniations occur between T8 and L1. Surgeons write that they would do surgery for intractable back or radicular pain, neurological deficits and myelopathy signs (often related to large thoracic disc herniations that occupy greater than 40% of the spinal canal. (3) For patients wanting a conservative option, Juneau chiropractic care at Aurora Chiropractic Center offers just such an alternative.
CHIROPRACTIC FOR THORACIC DISC HERNIATION
Aurora Chiropractic Center uses the gentle protocols of Cox® Technic to address the thoracic disc herniation. Your Juneau chiropractor can be quite precise in hand contact and relief with chiropractic care. Check out this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares a case of thoracic disc herniation and its relief with Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and chiropractic treatment.
CONTACT Aurora Chiropractic Center
Set your next Juneau chiropractic visit today. Aurora Chiropractic Center recognizes the pain of a thoracic disc herniation and its unique clinical symptomatology like an abdominal bulge. Visit us soon!
