COULD YOU BE SUFFERING FROM A HERNIATED DISC IN THE SPINE?
A spinal disc herniation can occur anywhere on the spine and can be quite painful, as well as causing numbness of the legs, feet, toes, arms, hands or fingers. A disc is considered “herniated” when a disc ruptures between the bones of the spine and the soft inner portion of the disc (nucleus) protrudes outside through the hard outer ring (annulus). This causes pain when a nerve is compressed.
Numbness can occur on one side of the body or both. When numbness occurs on both sides of the body, it will take more treatments to remedy that if numbness is on one side of the body. The sooner you get treatments the better.
Case: Male, age 60
Factory worker required to stand for 30 years developed numbness in both feet and hands. The early symptoms showed up as numbness in toes, and then finally total numbness of both feet. He came to see me after he declined to have surgery. I found his problem stemming from L3,4,5 and SI (sciatica) He came in for 51 treatments until most of the numbness was gone except for some slight numbness of two toes, and at which point he was fine with that and stopped his treatments.
Case: Male, age 47
Came in for treatment after declining to have surgery. His symptoms included of numbness in one hand and 2 or 3 fingers on the other. In the beginning I did only acupuncture treatments, but then encouraged him to also take herbs, which sped up his improvement. It took around 20-30 treatments to get rid of the numbness and one hand, and the other hand he would occasionally feel some slight numbness, and at which point the patient became satisfied with the results and didn’t return.
Numbness can occur on one side of the body or both. When numbness occurs on both sides of the body, it will take more treatments to remedy that if numbness is on one side of the body. The sooner you get treatments the better.
Case: Male, age 60
Factory worker required to stand for 30 years developed numbness in both feet and hands. The early symptoms showed up as numbness in toes, and then finally total numbness of both feet. He came to see me after he declined to have surgery. I found his problem stemming from L3,4,5 and SI (sciatica) He came in for 51 treatments until most of the numbness was gone except for some slight numbness of two toes, and at which point he was fine with that and stopped his treatments.
Case: Male, age 47
Came in for treatment after declining to have surgery. His symptoms included of numbness in one hand and 2 or 3 fingers on the other. In the beginning I did only acupuncture treatments, but then encouraged him to also take herbs, which sped up his improvement. It took around 20-30 treatments to get rid of the numbness and one hand, and the other hand he would occasionally feel some slight numbness, and at which point the patient became satisfied with the results and didn’t return.