Baton Rouge Thoracic Disc Herniation and Abdominal Pain
Abdominal pain brought on by a spinal disc herniation? Yes. It’s real. Some patients with a thoracic disc herniation will have a strange abdominal bulge. It is rather rare, but your Baton Rouge chiropractor is aware of its possibility and relationship to a thoracic disc herniation as its origin. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is familiar with the intricacy of a thoracic disc herniation surgery and offers 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 quite a bit of pain and unique symptoms associated with the abdomen. A recent case was presented in the medical literature. A 52 year old patient who presented with severe right flank pain and abdominal pain. The treating physicians diagnosed her with a T9-10 thoracic disc herniation and suggested an invasive surgery. (1) Another set of physicians describe a patient with unilateral, one-sided abdominal wall bulging and thoracic spine radicular pain caused by a lateral disc herniation at T11-12 that recurred with bilateral disc prolapse and motor deficits. This was an even more unusual case of thoracic disc herniation according to these doctors. (2) Surgeons are ready 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 by reason of its being so close to the spinal cord. Most thoracic disc herniations occur between T8 and L1. Surgeons write that they would perform surgery for intractable back or radicular pain, neurological deficits and myelopathy signs (often associated with large thoracic disc herniations that occupy more than 40% of the spinal canal. (3) For patients seeking a conservative option, Baton Rouge chiropractic care at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers offers such.
CHIROPRACTIC FOR THORACIC DISC HERNIATION
Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers offers the gentle protocols of Cox® Technic to treat the thoracic disc herniation. Your Baton Rouge chiropractor can be very specific 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 shares a case of thoracic disc herniation and its relief with Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and chiropractic treatment.
CONTACT Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers
Set your next Baton Rouge chiropractic visit today. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers understands the pain of a thoracic disc herniation and its unique clinical presentation like an abdominal bulge. Visit us soon!
