Doctors Never Mention This Disc Herniation Solution
We will be talking about the topic of disc herniation in this article. You have 24 spinal bones. We have a connective tissue pad or intervertebral disc between each of those spinal bones. The connective tissue wall around the outside of the disc can start to fail. This may lead to a bulge in the disc, or a tear could develop and the central layers of the disc can actually begin to expel themselves, causing a herniation. Bulging disc or slipped disc are a few of the terms that are used to refer to a disc herniation.
It's commonly thought that the pain and symptoms that can be connected with a disc herniation are assumed to be consequence of the herniated disc material pressing on spinal nerve roots. This is reasonable thinking on some level and certainly that can be the case in certain situations. As reported by research that's been done, it doesn't appear that disc herniation is completely the cause of the pain and symptoms that are usually associated with intervertebral disc herniation. In fact, in one New England Journal of Medicine study, 98 people without symptoms were given an MRI. Interestingly the results of the study revealed that there were disc issues in 52% of the people who were tested. The study researchers concluded that: "Given the high prevalence of these findings and of back pain, the discovery by MRI of bulges or protrusions in people with low back pain may frequently be coincidental." This implies to me that there are some other factors that are involved in the painful sensations and symptoms linked to intervertebral disc herniation.
I would suggest that at least one of the additional major factors in intervertebral disc herniation, if not THE key component, is the defensive programs that get stored in our nervous systems from a very young age. This is the same survival patterning that I've talked about in the majority of of my content pieces as being the source of the vast majority of the symptoms that people experience in their bodies and lives. These fundamental survival programs consist of muscle tension that's being held at the core of our system to sequester intelligent energy which has been deemed not safe to feel. Our low back and belly and pelvis end up becoming a repository for a lot of unprocessed energy that's being held by muscle tension. Eventually this situation becomes chronic. This situation is simply a part of what it means to be a human being. We hold that tension there in an unconscious effort to fragment ourselves; to keep our vulnerable belly and low back segregated from our heart because we've learned that vulnerability is the same as weakness. The pressure that gets created inside the intervertebral disc is comparable to squishing two ice cream cones together. The ice cream, or the disc material in this instance, gets squeezed out.
Interestingly, the lumbar spine and the bottom of the neck are two regions that are sensitive to the accumulation of the pressure and tension related to the defensive programs that get locked in our system. Incidentally, two of the most prevalent regions for intervertebral disc herniations to appear are in the lumbar spine, first, and at the bottom of the neck, second.
Another factor to consider is that we change our body posture in association with the survival patterns in our system. We alter our posture in an unconscious effort to create tension in our spinal cord. It is a useful way of disconnecting from things, particularly emotions, that our nervous systems have determined are unsafe to feel. The elongation of our spinal cord is a primitive strategy that humans have that allows them to limit the range and depth of what they can feel.
In light of where disc herniations show up, it's interesting to make note of the fact that the spinal cord becomes anchored to the spinal bones beginning in the lumbar spine and in the lower neck (it floats freely everywhere else). I would propose that, in many instances, the origin of the pain related to intervertebral disc herniation has little to do with the herniation pushing on the nerves and more about the nerve roots being stretched across the herniation. That is why eliminating the herniated material with surgery can help, because it affords the nerves a little bit more room to move and can momentarily ease signs and symptoms. Removal of the herniated material won't change the fact that there is an overarching problem connected with the survival patterns in the system, that being the pressure in the spine and the associated posture change and spinal cord stretching. And so problems of some nature are likely to recur down the road.
In my opinion and experience it makes more sense to deal with the root problem, which is the defensive patterns in the system and the subsequent tension and spinal cord elongation.
Works Cited:
Jensen, Maureen C., Michael N. Brant-Zawadzki, Nancy Obuchowski, Michael T. Modic, Dennis Malkasian, and Jeffrey S. Ross. "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Lumbar Spine in People without Back Pain." New England Journal of Medicine 331 (1994): 69-73.
It's commonly thought that the pain and symptoms that can be connected with a disc herniation are assumed to be consequence of the herniated disc material pressing on spinal nerve roots. This is reasonable thinking on some level and certainly that can be the case in certain situations. As reported by research that's been done, it doesn't appear that disc herniation is completely the cause of the pain and symptoms that are usually associated with intervertebral disc herniation. In fact, in one New England Journal of Medicine study, 98 people without symptoms were given an MRI. Interestingly the results of the study revealed that there were disc issues in 52% of the people who were tested. The study researchers concluded that: "Given the high prevalence of these findings and of back pain, the discovery by MRI of bulges or protrusions in people with low back pain may frequently be coincidental." This implies to me that there are some other factors that are involved in the painful sensations and symptoms linked to intervertebral disc herniation.
I would suggest that at least one of the additional major factors in intervertebral disc herniation, if not THE key component, is the defensive programs that get stored in our nervous systems from a very young age. This is the same survival patterning that I've talked about in the majority of of my content pieces as being the source of the vast majority of the symptoms that people experience in their bodies and lives. These fundamental survival programs consist of muscle tension that's being held at the core of our system to sequester intelligent energy which has been deemed not safe to feel. Our low back and belly and pelvis end up becoming a repository for a lot of unprocessed energy that's being held by muscle tension. Eventually this situation becomes chronic. This situation is simply a part of what it means to be a human being. We hold that tension there in an unconscious effort to fragment ourselves; to keep our vulnerable belly and low back segregated from our heart because we've learned that vulnerability is the same as weakness. The pressure that gets created inside the intervertebral disc is comparable to squishing two ice cream cones together. The ice cream, or the disc material in this instance, gets squeezed out.
Interestingly, the lumbar spine and the bottom of the neck are two regions that are sensitive to the accumulation of the pressure and tension related to the defensive programs that get locked in our system. Incidentally, two of the most prevalent regions for intervertebral disc herniations to appear are in the lumbar spine, first, and at the bottom of the neck, second.
Another factor to consider is that we change our body posture in association with the survival patterns in our system. We alter our posture in an unconscious effort to create tension in our spinal cord. It is a useful way of disconnecting from things, particularly emotions, that our nervous systems have determined are unsafe to feel. The elongation of our spinal cord is a primitive strategy that humans have that allows them to limit the range and depth of what they can feel.
In light of where disc herniations show up, it's interesting to make note of the fact that the spinal cord becomes anchored to the spinal bones beginning in the lumbar spine and in the lower neck (it floats freely everywhere else). I would propose that, in many instances, the origin of the pain related to intervertebral disc herniation has little to do with the herniation pushing on the nerves and more about the nerve roots being stretched across the herniation. That is why eliminating the herniated material with surgery can help, because it affords the nerves a little bit more room to move and can momentarily ease signs and symptoms. Removal of the herniated material won't change the fact that there is an overarching problem connected with the survival patterns in the system, that being the pressure in the spine and the associated posture change and spinal cord stretching. And so problems of some nature are likely to recur down the road.
In my opinion and experience it makes more sense to deal with the root problem, which is the defensive patterns in the system and the subsequent tension and spinal cord elongation.
Works Cited:
Jensen, Maureen C., Michael N. Brant-Zawadzki, Nancy Obuchowski, Michael T. Modic, Dennis Malkasian, and Jeffrey S. Ross. "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Lumbar Spine in People without Back Pain." New England Journal of Medicine 331 (1994): 69-73.
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