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Old 03-24-2010, 09:14 PM   #12
Slava
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Originally Posted by Azure View Post
What you guys are doing is just giving you relief.

Eventually you gotta just fix the herniated disk itself.

I haven't really studied the surgery, but I know quite a few people that have had it done and their success rate was over 95%.

A few of them are as healthy as ever.
True enough that a lot of these are dealing with the symptoms, but in the case of the decompression (which could be via traction or the inversion) the idea is that by pulling the vertabrae apart the disc gets sucked back in and gives you the relief.
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