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Originally Posted by Azure
What you guys are doing is just giving you relief.
Eventually you gotta just fix the herniated disk itself.
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Disagree.
I once read, If you were to MRI 10 strangers off the street there's a chance that 5 or 6 could show herniation's or degenerative disc disease. Of those 10, 2 or 3 might complain of back pain with no real correlation to the MRI results.
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Here's a source from a chiro's website. I'll update with a real source when I find it again.
Here's another source that, while it may be from a chiro's site, sites academic literature regarding false diagnosis.
I'm a prime example, I have a herniated disc and an MRI to prove it but I have zero symptoms from the disc herniation. Sometimes my back gets stiff but people with "healthy" backs get stiff muscles too. Shortly before that MRI I gave myself a concussion through my spine by landing on my tailbone (I didn't even know you could do that, did you? weird...) Anyways, if exercise alone can stabilize my herniated disc to the point where that doesn't cause ANY pain, why get surgery? It is important to disconnect clinical results from actually symptoms!