Thoracic Herniated Disc Treatment - Stretches

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Thoracic herniated disc problem is something which could be cured both with the help of surgical and non surgical treatments. This is good news for the people who are not really willing or are a bit scared of going under the knife for this problem.

The non surgical treatments could be very beneficial only if they are done over a period of time and they are done in combinations of different treatments. Just one treatment is not good enough. We would, in this article, look at some of the non surgical treatments for thoracic herniated disc.

Taking rest is very important for this problem and if you are having this problem, then it would be advisable that you go through a couple of days rest and then get back to the normal things of life. This would ensure that the herniated disc does not get further deteriorated by your activities.

After some time of rest, the person can go back to normal activities but he or she should be very slow and gentle in each and everything he or she does for some period. Starting with some gentle walking exercises would be a good way to go about things initially.

There could be some medications taken as well. They could be either narcotic or non narcotic or a combination of both. These narcotic medicines are basically used to cure the upper back pain problems which might help in relieving the pain from the thoracic herniated disc as well. There could be some anti-inflammatory agents used as well mainly for bringing down the inflammation near the herniated disc.

These anti-inflammation remedies could be either medications, ice packs or some anti inflammatory injections. Strengthening exercises, manual manipulation could be some of the other non surgical treatments that can be used to cure the thoracic herniated disc.