St Peters Thoracic Disc Herniation and Abdominal Pain
Abdominal pain caused by a spinal disc herniation? Yes. It’s real. A few patients with a thoracic disc herniation will have a peculiar abdominal bulge. It’s not very usual, but your St Peters chiropractor is attentive to its possibility and affiliation with a thoracic disc herniation as its source. Old Mill Chiropractic 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 quite rare fortunately, but it can provoke a lot of pain and interesting symptoms related to the abdomen. One recent case was presented in the medical literature. A 52 year old patient who presented with severe right flank pain and abdominal pain. The treating physicians determined she had a T9-10 thoracic disc herniation and suggested an invasive surgery. (1) Another set of physicians describe a patient with unilateral, single-sided abdominal wall bulging and thoracic spine radicular pain caused by a lateral disc herniation at T11-12 that returned with bilateral disc prolapse and motor deficits. This was an even more unusual case of thoracic disc herniation according to these doctors. (2) Surgeons are prepared to do surgery for usual and unusual cases of thoracic disc herniation if the patient is ready.
SURGERY FOR THORACIC DISC HERNIATION
Surgical procedures for thoracic disc herniation are complex and quite invasive by reason of its close proximity to the spine cord. Most thoracic disc herniations happen 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 more than 40% of the spinal canal. (3) For patients wanting a conservative option, St Peters chiropractic care at Old Mill Chiropractic offers such.
CHIROPRACTIC FOR THORACIC DISC HERNIATION
Old Mill Chiropractic offers the gentle protocols of Cox® Technic to take care of the thoracic disc herniation. Your St Peters 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 Old Mill Chiropractic
Make your next St Peters chiropractic visit today. Old Mill Chiropractic understands the pain of a thoracic disc herniation and its unique clinical symptomatology like an abdominal bulge. Visit us soon!
