“Help For Pain of Bulging Discs”

If you are sufferingg from back pain or sciatica due to disk herniation, bulging discs, degenerative disc disease or a slipped disc, here are a few tips to help ease the pain. These tips may not be a cure for lower back pain, but they will provide back pain relief while you are pursuing a lower back pain treatment program.

What causes the back pain from a bulging disc?

The pain comes from two main sources:

1. The disc itself has nerves in its outer fibers. When a disc has been injured and is bulging and swollen, these nerves become irritated and send out pain messages to your brain. Your brain interprets the pain messages and you feel the characteristic pain. The pain is usually deep and achey and is located in the central area of the spine or just slightly off to one side or the other of the spine.
2. If the bulging disc or disk herniation is large enough, the spinal nerves will be irritated which causes referred pain down to the buttocks, thigh, leg or foot. This is called “sciatica.” How far down the leg the pain travels depends on which nerves are involved.

So now you know where the pain comes from and that’s just great, but…

What can you do for back pain relief?

This article is going to assume that you are already under the care of a doctor and you are trying to solve your problem with some sort of medical/chiropractic/acupuncture/physical therapy treatment. Although you may be in the middle of a back pain relief program, you may still be experiencing pain. So what to do while you’re waiting for this treatment to “kick in” and make you feel better?

Here’s what I recommend to my spinal decompression patients:
(Do these in order, one immediately after the other.)

1. Hot shower, hot wet towels or moist heating pad for 15 minutes

2. Knee to chest stretch

3. Disc & sciatica relief position while lying on ice
(remove ice after 12 minutes, keep laying in this position for 1 hour total)

Perform this routine 1-3 times a day to get relief from back pain due to disk herniation or bulging discs.

If you are suffering from back pain or sciatica due to disk herniation, bulging discs, degenerative disc disease or a slipped disc and you’ve tried drugs, shots, chiropractic, acupuncture and/or physical therapy without success, you owe it to yourself to at least look into spinal decompression. Get a Free Guide to Severe Back, Disc and Sciatica Pain written by a former Associate Clinical Professor and a noted OC Spinal Decompression specialist and author with over 22 years experience here:
http://www.orangespinaldecompression.com/