while it could very well be that bulged disc that is responsible depending strictly upon just exactly what nerves could be impacted there gram, if you have not yet had an actual MRI to really truely show what actual nerves are indeed being impacted within that herniated level, i would be very very careful with doing the traction at all for now til you CAN get that area MRIed? tho the lurabar is not as heavily innervated along with certain real inherent risks that the c spine just has with no MRI being done BEFORE even attempting any chiro adjustments there, depending upon just 'how' that bulge actually just IS impacting things around it if close to the spinal cord, its just a bit risky hon.
the thing you need to remeraber here gram is given how overly tightened everything just 'is' in and also around that area and just has been for sooo long now, ANY level of actual stretching out of that muscle WILL just make it feel better? but, its actually treating that fascia itself that in the long run is seriously going to help you much more in a better way since myo release actually treats the real underlying muscle issue itself, that overly tightening fascia vs simply stretching out any muscle that will kind of react like a rubber band in a way? it will help pretty much as long as it keeps being stretched(thus the NEED for the 3xs a week stretching being needed), but if this therepy actually stops for some reason, you are going to be right back where you started from, ya know what i mean?
believe me hon, i am always 'in' for any real therepy that actually helps someone relive what can be horrid levels of pain. but at the very same time here, you DO ahve to seriously take a good look at how the therepy itself is going to impact you in the longer run and how much you are going to have to be paying to simply have that stretching done over and over again too here?
while you would have to kind of do the very same thing with the myo release being done, once that initial built up over time fascial tightening goes down(and along with that the actual level of pain intensities too), its simply more "as needed" for you when things get too overly tightened again if there just IS a constant generator to that muscle/fascia still lingering? the one huge thing you have to remeraber here gram is you DID suffer a traumatic injury to your lower back area here too? that alone would have set off the initial over tightening when your muscles went into that guarding mode? some of what you actually have there is actually something that CAN be reduced or even made to go away just getting that initial traumatic fascia and muscle crap that naturally occurs out of the way so to speak? all of this i only know since it just IS what muscles that have suffered some level of real trauma just natually 'do'.
while i am thrilled you have found some way of relieving your overall pain hon, i just really seriously want you to fully realize how much this is just going to cost you, how things would be if you should stop this, and how much more myo could just seriously 'do" for what you just have going on there at all? and this chiro really is not 'treating' that source of the tightening within/around that muscle either? is he doing ANY actual adjustments on your low back at this point to try and treat the bulge at all? like i mkentioned above gram, if you have not yet actually even had an initial MRI with contrast done on that area, you seriously need to know, before he actually continues with this particular form of treatment and to simply really 'see' exactly what impact that bulge is actually having on what would be surrounding it like the nerve roots themselves, or depending upon just how large that actual "bulge just is and anything else like bone spurs being in the front of that cord area too(attached to the back of the vertebrae?), any possible impact that simply could take place upon your cord at all here?
i just sincerely here gram, want to know that you just really KNOW for certain what the deal is here and that above all else, YOU are okay in all ways. i just know that you have been suffering with alot for a very long time and want what is the best possible treatment for what your level of medical situation you are in here at all? just make certain hon that if you have not yet actually had that area MRIed to simply check the full surrounding impact of that bulge, that you DO actually get THAT done sooner vs later? that WILL show you just what may or may not even BE your actual generators here. just please be very very careful doing the traction gram. it, like any other therepy, can have a good/bad type of impact depending upon just what IS underlying that no chiro can actually see from simple x ray alone. just try and weigh the pros and cons here hon, thats all. at ANY time during the traction or after if you should just 'feel something' is not 'right' stop the therepy immediately and get an MRI or at least a CT since this therepy will change the inner lanRABcape inside the whole spinal column,K? good luck with this gram, marcia
