Key points about treating pain caused by a slipped disc.

1. Cause, Symptoms and
Treatments for Prolapsed
Disc

2. Do you experience a shooting back pain when you
move your back, cough or sneeze, but subside a
little when you try to lie down?

3. Do you experience a shooting back pain when you
move your back, cough or sneeze, but subside a
little when you try to lie down?
Stunned by the crawling pain from your buttocks
down the back of your leg and sometimes, even
further down your foot commonly known as
sciatica pain?

4. Stunned by the crawling pain from
your buttocks down the back of your
leg and sometimes, even further down
your foot commonly known as sciatica
pain?
Do you experience a shooting back pain when you
move your back, cough or sneeze, but subside a
little when you try to lie down?
Stunned by the crawling pain from your buttocks
down the back of your leg and sometimes, even
further down your foot commonly known as
sciatica pain?
How about those needles and pins sensations that
numbs or weakens your buttocks, leg or foot?

5. Stunned by the crawling pain from
your buttocks down the back of your
leg and sometimes, even further down
your foot commonly known as sciatica
pain?
Do you experience a shooting back pain when you
move your back, cough or sneeze, but subside a
little when you try to lie down?
Stunned by the crawling pain from your buttocks
down the back of your leg and sometimes, even
further down your foot commonly known as
sciatica pain?
How about those needles and pins sensations that
numbs or weakens your buttocks, leg or foot?
Or an occasional difficulty to relieve yourself or
trouble with your regular bowel, a rare disorder
called cauda equina syndrome perhaps?

6. You could be suffering from the
symptoms of a prolapsed disc…

7. Which is usually confused with a common
low back pain from strenuous activity or
heavy lifting, on the other hand, 1 out of
20 back pain cases is actually a case of
prolapsed disc wherein people under the
age of 30 to 50 years old usually gets
it, most especially women.

8. Prolapsed disc also
known as slipped disc or
herniated disc is a
condition where a disc in
the spine develops a rift
that leads to a bulging disc
causing you to feel back
pains as well as pain on
other parts of the body.

9. Prolapsed disc also
known as slipped disc or
herniated disc is a
condition where a disc in
the spine develops a rift
that leads to a bulging disc
causing you to feel back
pains as well as pain on
other parts of the body.
Sciatic nerve for
that matter is
usually the
affected area when
a slipped disc
occurs that brings
sciatic pain
running down from
the buttocks to the
foot.

10. Taking that into account, it is still not clear how a person who performs
tedious task every day and a person who doesn’t can both develop a prolapse
disc. But some of the proven causes are:
 Natural fragility of outer part of disc
 Triggers like sneezing, poor posture, or heavy lifting with improper posture
 A job that requires a lot of heavy lifting
 Sitting all day at work
 Sports that includes strenuous lifting
 Being obese
 Heavy smoking
 Old age

11. Not to be taken aback, people who suffer from this can undergo physical treatments
for their prolapsed disc. A combination of physical therapy like massages and exercises, which
may take about four to six weeks, can help you recover from a slipped disc.

12. As soon as you can, try to carry on your day to day routines, but do not engage in activities
that can aggravate the pain. Nurse your body in order for it to endure your condition but do not
baby the pain. However, when you do take a rest, choose a good mattress, don’t pile on too
much pillows and sleep in a comfortable position.
Not to be taken aback, people who suffer from this can undergo physical treatments
for their prolapsed disc. A combination of physical therapy like massages and exercises, which
may take about four to six weeks, can help you recover from a slipped disc.

13. Other individuals find anti-inflammatory painkillers better for them while a
stronger painkiller works for other, but you experience constipation when you’re on a
stronger painkiller like codeine and for tense cases muscle relaxant are prescribed.
Medication is also another way to battle the pain; paracetamol for
four times a day is often times enough for not so severe cases.

14. For alternative treatment, you may seek a physiotherapist,
chiropractor, and osteopath for natural procedures, but
of course effects of any kind of treatment vary depending on individual
conditions of patients.

15. When you have tried everything else but nothing seems
to work, surgery may be your last resort.
For cases that are not healing with the usual four to six weeks which cuts off the
herniated part of the disc. But before your immediate health care professional advices
surgery, he will lay all the advantages and disadvantages of it for you to draw a solid decision.

16. Have you dealt with prolapsed disc?
Still trying to endure the pain?
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your problem.

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