The injections are just a bandaid fix. Put a rubber band on your finger and then take some pain medication. Yes, this will help the pain but when the medication wears off, you still have a rubber band on your finger. You have a pinched nerve, the injection will help with the pain and will help with the inflammation. The thing is, you still have a disc pinching the nerve, so the pain and inflammation will return. Physical therapy does nothing for disc herniation. You need to see a chiropractor to have that disc put back where it belongs. Look for one that uses a technique called flexion-distraction. It is a chiropractic technique that involves a specific type of traction. Your case is routine in our offices and patients do really well with the treatment. Look into the risks of these injections, we had a mayor who had the same thing you have, he had an injection and developed a staph infection from it. He died!
Posted By doc4bax on March 19, 2007 at 12:11:09:
In Reply to: Herniated Disc
posted by Mike Kelley on March 19, 2007 at 08:17:08:
