Ashburn and Herndon 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 is not very usual, but your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor is attentive to its possibility and relationship to a thoracic disc herniation as its origin. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn recognizes the difficulty of a thoracic disc herniation surgery and delivers 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 a lot of pain and interesting symptoms associated with the abdomen. One case that came out recently was described in the medical literature. The patient was 52 years old 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 report on a patient with unilateral, single-sided abdominal wall bulging and thoracic spine radicular pain due to a lateral disc herniation at T11-12 that recurred with bilateral disc prolapse and motor deficits. Their case was an all the more unusual case of thoracic disc herniation according to the physicians. (2) Surgeons are prepared 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 happen between T8 and L1. Surgeons explain that they would do surgery for intractable back or radicular pain, neurological deficits and myelopathy signs (often associated with large thoracic disc herniations that occupy greater than 40% of the spinal canal. (3) For patients wanting a conservative option, Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic care at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn offers just such an alternative.
CHIROPRACTIC FOR THORACIC DISC HERNIATION
Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn offers the gentle protocols of Cox® Technic to take care of the thoracic disc herniation. Your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor can be quite precise in hand contact and relief with chiropractic care. Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes a case of thoracic disc herniation and its relief with Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and chiropractic treatment.
CONTACT Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn
Set your next Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic visit soon. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn recognizes the pain of a thoracic disc herniation and its unique clinical symptomatology like an abdominal bulge. Come by soon!
