Prolapsed Disc - How to Fix Injured Discs Without Needing Surgery

Approaches to Repairing a Prolapsed Disc

Fixing a prolapsed disc usually means different things to each person. In most cases it either would mean:

1. get rid of the back pain, or
2. treat the prolapsed disc.

The effect will be the very same although the actual outlook is different. Should you only want to remove the back pain - meaning the symptoms - you could just take some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory pills, or prescription drugs, or obtain repeated cortisone shots. Even if you possibly achieve your goal of getting rid of your back pain, you obviously haven't solved the true problem.

At the same time, if you ever decide to fix a prolapsed disc through really addressing the actual root cause and the symptoms as well, you'll have a more realistic probability of both ending the pain and also fixing the condition for good.

What Causes a Prolapsed Disc?

Aside from some cases which involve shock, a prolapsed disc doesn't happen suddenly. Even if it feels as if you "threw your back out" all of a sudden, it more probably was a whole process of becoming weaker over time that allowed the disc to slip.

In simple terms, prolapsed discs, also known as herniating or slipped discs, are typically brought on by unequal pressure on the disc. Think of driving a car which is out of line because more pressure is being put on one edge of the car. Now if you keep on driving without fixing this issue, of course you will eventually have a blowout on one side, and it all seems to have happened suddenly.

A similar scenario takes place in your back, where some muscles that are too weak will lead to wrong back postures and in the end you'll wake up with a "sudden" injured disc.

What you might find shocking is a lot of people have a prolapsed disc free of pain. It's only when the disc or inside substance from your prolapsed disc push against a nerve that pain comes up.