The Truth about Lumbar Disc Herniations | Myth Busting

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The Truth about Lumbar Disc Herniations | Myth Busting

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🎶 Intro/Outro Track: Pharien - What You Say
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[jamesgoodwin]

Likely had a herniated disc 7 years ago but had no health insurance, no job, no money, and no idea what was wrong with me since there was no pain in my back, just leg weakness and buttocks pain. Seemed to heal on its own within weeks but took a few years to get legs strength back so I could run normally again for more than 30 minutes.

[JanLayneCobain]

Had horrible pain in my left leg two years ago in the middle of our trip to Italy. Couldn't sit, lye or move. The Docs made an MRI that showed a herniated disc, but in comparison to other pics on the net, it seemed not that bad. Had a lot of injections and pills, nothing helped. Went on half a year without any sleep and at that time, bad thoughts came to my mind. My wife said that I should go to an osteopath. To be honest, I thought that's a charlatan, but gave it a try since it was my last option. Well, he pushed some spots all over my leg, hip and back. 5min later he said it isn't the disc, it's the piriformis. Pushed another 30min some spots and all of a sudden the pain was gone. This muscle pinched my nerve to an extend, I couldn't feel anything in my toes. Went to 8 different docs including a large variety of profession. They all said it's the disc and I need surgery. Well, I am glad I didn't do it.

[jbelle]

Thank you for doing this. The surgeon talked to me about rods and screws if medicine and therapy doesnt work, and Im just mortified by it. I cant stand up for more than a minute at a time before the pain becomes unbareable. Im 39 and just want my body to heal itself. This gave me hope.

[rka]

5:52 "Structure is just one component of many..." I couldn't agree more. After 40 years of experience in orthopedics (Not only orthopaedic surgery!) I find it very helpful to think of us humans as computers - with a hardware and a software. I did not learn this at any of the university hospitals in London, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Düsseldorf or Münster where I got my academic training as an orthopaedic surgeon. I learned it during the following 20 years working with thousands of patients. The basic lesson is very simple: Since reality is too complicated to fully understand it, we need simplifying hypotheses. I called my hypotheses the Instifor concept. It does not contain any new ideas about diagnostic or therapeutic tools - but it is a very simple theoretical concept that tells you exactly what to do in terms of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and when to expect what results. I am so sick and tired of patients who are subjected to yearly MRI scans as if the essential problem was to find out whether their backpain was red or green, spherical or squared. Thank you for your excellent video!

[thrace]

Yea sounds good on paper. Try living with a herniated disc though. It’s a different story. Your mood is greatly affected. You don’t want to sit for very long anywhere. So good luck travelling or working. You’re constantly thinking about it. You could reinjure doing almost anything. Honestly it’s a fucking nightmare and it just gets worse and worse and worse. I took the conservative approach for 10 years managing it staying active then couldn’t take it anymore and got surgery last year. It’s been a steady decline ever since. I’m still active though. The disc feels like it’s degenerating more and more every week. I push through and continue to exercise hoping that it will get better one day.

[DeepDiveNFT]

I’m 30yo with a sequestered/ herniated disc and experienced 8 weeks of varying pain levels from dull to the most painful ever. Doctors told me to have surgery after 7 weeks of back and forth. I’m not doing surgery. I believe I’m getting better and training my left leg back to strength and practicing movements that will facilitate healthy spine.

[Vollkontakt]

Tausend Dank für die grossartige Zusammenfassung! Ihr macht phänomenale Arbeit!

[kasimirb]

I have had several disc herniations. They regressed, true. I can't do heavy lifting anymore though. The pain after a session is excruciating. Also back bending is not a mind game. In many cases this leads to disc herniations. Lacing my shoes etc. works only with a straight back.

[wric]

It does heal, one of few testament here. 2 months back pain, then gotten better and went hiking. Next day all pain is back 4x more worse. 3 months of hell with constant sciatica no sleep. Nothing works except ice pack and numb that disc area. Injection numb worked for a day or 2 but it's back with a vengeance after. Praying and others praying for you works. Dunno how or what, it's gone 80%. Just sore back most of time now. L5s1 with stenosis. Camel back hump stretch 6 time morning and night lumbar decompression by butt against wall leg straight up turn against each other twist to stretch with 2 hands straight back head.

[joshs]

Thanks for the MRI pic showing spontaneous auto-resorption, I had no idea that was a thing... and you showed the evidence to back it up!

[truthspeaker]

Please I am literally begging you make videos to relieve the pain of sciatica or a way to stretch it

[DannyNedelko]

physio in progress here, love you guys! you gonna help going through my examina, i learned more from your videos as a couple of my teachers could teach me.

[carlinesimeon]

Great narration, great visual support, great review of recent medical/scientific research. Thank you for sharing

[appyd]

Great video with lots of facts! Actually I agree with you, one of mine patient with disk herniation got relief by systematic rehabilitation protocol. Surgery was advised to that patient but with proper rehabilitation given by me & my team gave him relief!

[gregmagnificent]

I have Disc Protrusion Dealing With it Right now, On My Right Side Only, My Pain Comes When I'm Sitting Down, When I'm on my feet I'm fine very minimal pain

[yoheff]

I had a herniated disc (with sciatica pain as a bonus) about 2.5 years ago.
Got rid of the issue in about 2.5 months thanks to the McKenzie technique I discovered and used it every hour on the hour of every day.
with that I had some numbness on both legs, the right leg was worse than the left, the numbness did become a little better but never completely left,
Will it ever leave me?

[Mama-tea]

I’m 5 months down the road and now waiting on surgery, the MRI was fascinating, I couldn’t urinate either but it was due to the pain and not cauda equines.
I’m on gabapentin, morphine, amitriptyline, diazepam, methacarbamol and still in excruciating pain when I move. I was in hospital for 2 weeks at the beginning and came home with a pulpit walker, crutches and bathroom aids. It’s really depressing sitting at home doing nothing for months . I’ve developed sciatica in high legs as well now

[djstubbs]

Fantastic work 👏. Thank you for providing such clear, powerful content. It's incredibly helpful.

[LowellQuadros]

Great explanation and animation. Thanks Physiotutors!

[maja]

I can hardly find any person with hd t7-t8, I'm always special🤦 .... pain in belly, back.. If I control my moves and posture I can go through the day without pain. But it took long period to learn how and through pain unfortunately. Next Wednesday I go to see neurosurgeon with my MRI images. Lockdowns and long period of staring to mobile for last two years and my job at nursrery kindergarten made the rest. I cannot find exercises for my type of HD (5mm), and would be very thankful to someone for the link or site.. thank you for your video💕