81.4% = the number of asymptomatic subjects with disc herniations, yet have NO BACK PAIN.
Your structure on imaging is not a great predictor of your pain?
So – you have a disc herniation? Fine.
So – you have pain? Noted.
Those two are separate entities in the vast majority of subjects. Is the disc innervated for pain? Sure – the recurrent meningeal nerve helps with that.
But for chronicity? After 6 months of back pain, the cause is unlikely to be structural.
It’s in your mind and your movement.
You are in charge.
Get assessed. Get corrections. Change your habits. Heed advice you may be ignoring. Eat well. Stress less. Move well. Move more in the right places. Build strength on a mobile and stable platform.
Bookmark the link below the next time you are tempted to believe your disc herniation is causing your back pain. It’s unlikely to be the whole story.
Get to the root of the whole story.
– Dr. Kathy Dooley