How We Treat Disc Injuries

How’s it going, guys? I want to talk about disc injuries. Now, we can help treat them. Now, with our spine model, you see in white are our vertebrae.
0:066 secondsThese yellow things right there are the nerves. And if you see any red, those are blood vessels. Now, in between each of these vertebrae, there’s a disc just
0:1414 secondslike in our bodies. Now, if there’s any ever sort of stress, trauma, or major injury in the low back, what happens is
0:2121 secondsthis disc acts like a jelly donut to observe to absorb compression forces.
0:2626 secondsSo, the jelly donut, the outside is nice and hard. The inside’s full of jelly.
0:3131 secondsAnd if the fibers in the back of this disc erupt due to injury, they break open the jelly spill out. And typically,
0:3838 secondsthey spill out on top of these nerves back here. Now, when that happens, the best thing that we can do as chiropractors is we adjust around the
0:4747 secondsarea to reduce the edema, the inflammation, and the pain. Over time,
0:5151 secondswe will provide stabilizing like stabilizing factors as far as exercises,
0:5656 secondsbut overall treatments will help increase the stability in the low back.
0:5959 secondsAnd eventually, the disc will start to absorb back into position by itself. And then with more time, more healing, and more treatment, that disc should start to be good as new.