SLIPPED DISC

What is Slipped disc?

It refers to an intervertebral disc of the spine that has lost its normal shape and/or consistency. The altered shape occurs when the disc soft inner material bulges or leaks out of its external fibrous covering. 

The disc act as buffers between your bones, allowing you to bend and move with ease. When one of these disc tears or leaks, it’s called a herniated disk

It’s one of the most common causes of neck, back and leg pain.

Causes

It is still unknown why some people develop a 'slipped' (prolapsed) disc and not others, even when they do the same job or lift the same sort of objects. It seems that some people may have a weakness in the outer part of the affected disc. Various things may trigger the inner softer part of the disc to squeeze out through the weakened outer part of the disc. In people with a weakness in a disc, this may be sufficient to cause a prolapse. Factors that may increase the risk of developing a prolapsed disc include:

• Heavy lifting.

• Sedentary lifestyle (sitting for long hours, especially driving).

• Weight-bearing sports (weightlifting, etc).

• Smoking.

• Being overweight (obesity).

• Increasing age (a disc is more likely to develop a weakness as we become older).

Symptoms

Most herniated disks occur in the lower back, but they can also occur in the neck. Signs and symptoms depend on where the disk is situated and whether the disk is pressing on a nerve. Herniated disks usually affect one side of the body.

• Arm or leg pain. If your herniated disk is in your lower back, besides pain in your lower back, you'll typically feel pain in your buttocks, thigh and calf. You might have pain in part of the foot as well.

For a herniated disk in your neck, you'll typically feel the most pain in your shoulder and arm. This pain might shoot into your arm or leg when you cough, sneeze or move into certain positions. Pain is often described as sharp or burning.

• Numbness or tingling. People who have a herniated disk often have radiating numbness or tingling in the body part served by the affected nerves.

• Weakness. Muscles served by the affected nerves tend to weaken. This can cause you to stumble, or affect your ability to lift or hold items.

Homoeopathic treatment for slipped disc

Homoeopathic medicine is very effective for slipped disc & is totally natural, free from any side effects. It is one of the most widely accepted forms of medicine which causes no side effects and can be taken easily by both men and women. Homoeopathic medicine for slipped disc is not only to treat slipped disc but to address its underlying cause and individual susceptibility.

As far as therapeutic medication is concerned, several remedies are available to treat slipped disk that can be selected on the basis of cause, sensations and modalities of the complaints.  

Commonly indicated homoeopathy medicines for Slipped Disc are as follows: 

Ruta

• Pressure on inside of right scapula. Pricking itching between shoulders, not better by rubbing. Contusive pains in back and loins, often with oppressed respiration.

• Pain in loins and sacrum as from contusion.

• Pain in loins when walking and when stooping, or only when seated, better by pressure and when lying down.

• Backache better lying on back.

• Pain in lumbar vertebrae as if bruised. 

• Bruised pain in spine. 

Rhus tox

• Rheumatic tearing between shoulders, not affected by movement, worse by cold, better by heat.

• Pain in small of back when sitting still or when lying: better when lying on something hard or from exercise.

• Affects the fibrous tissue, especially the right side more than the left.

• Worse after midnight and in wet, rainy weather; affected parts sore to touch.

• Lameness, stiffness and pain on first moving after rest, or on getting up in the morning better by walking or continued motion.

• Great restlessness, anxiety, apprehension, cannot remain in bed, must change position often to obtain relief from pain

Calc carb.

• Pain in the back. 

• Intolerable pain in the back.

• The spine pains on bending backward.

• Painful stiffness in the spine, with dullness and heaviness in the legs, in the morning on waking, and after rising.

• Bruised pain in the back and chest.

• Spasmodic, jerking pain, extending from the left side of the back to the anus. Painful jerks in the right side of the back, on breathing, with chilliness, and cold.  

Bryonia

• Homeopathic medicine for slipped disk having cramp-like pain all over the back.

• Shootings pain in the loins and in the back.

• Painful stiffness in the small of the back, compelling him to walk and sit crookedly.

• Shootings under the left shoulder-blade, extending to the heart, greatly aggravated by cough and respiration.

• Bryonia patients are irritable, inclined to be vehement and angry

• Pains: stitching, tearing, worse at night, by motion, inspiration, coughing and better by absolute rest, lying on painful side.

• Excessive dryness of mucous membranes of entire body

Other medicines for slipped disc are:

• Bryonia

• Rhus tox

• Kali carb

• Phosphorus

• Sepia

• Lachesis

• Thuja occidentalis

• Ruta

• Calcarea carb

• Cimicifuga

• China officinalis

• Natrum mur

• Pulsatilla

• Kalmia

• Ledum pal

• Medorrhinum

• Calcarea phos

None of these medicines should be taken without professional advice. 

For individualized remedy selection and treatment, contact BRAHMA MADHURYA HOMOEOPATHY CLINIC - +91-7057579595 or www.brahmamadhurya.com