Treatment for Disc Tears, Disc Degeneration, Disc Bulges, and Herniated Discs

Atlantic Spinal Care provides comprehensive care for individuals suffering from spinal pain (back, neck, and arm pain) caused from Disc Tears, Disc Degeneration, Disc Bulges, and Herniated Discs. Patients with these conditions often feel neck, back, arm, and leg pain. Spinal nerves are frequently pinched or irritated by spinal disc conditions.

Although we are leaders in endoscopic spine surgery, we also provide other options of treatment depending on each individual's unique condition. It is our belief that treatment begins with proper diagnosis and by understanding each of our patient's needs and the journey they have been through.

ASC believes that currently 5 steps are available on the path of treatment for spinal pain. Depending on the severity of the individual’s condition, one individual may start off at a different step then another. Here are the different steps:

The 5 Steps of Treatment for Back and Neck Pain
Step 16 to 8 weeks of conservative treatments including physical therapy & exercises, chiropractic adjustments, anti-inflammatory medications, acupuncture.
Step 21 to 3 spinal steroid injections.
Step 3Endoscopic Spinal Surgery
Step 4Open spinal surgery (microdisectomy, laminectomy, spinal fusions, total disc replacement)
Step 5Endoscopic spinal surgery, spinal cord stimulator, spinal narcotic pumps

We look forward to determining what causes your pain and where we can start to help you in regards to your pain treatment process.

You have three options to get started. They are:

  1. If at this time you only have a quick question then fill out our quick contact form.
  2. Have your MRI reviewed by our Chief Surgeon and speak to him directly afterwards.
  3. Sign up to participate in our pain study to really understand your pain and your next step to take.

If you would like to learn a little bit more about Atlantic Spinal Care and how we change lives every day, we recommend watching some of our patients video testimonials and hearing from them first hand on how we gave them their lives back.

If you need more information on things such as our commitment to quality, our outstanding track record, the length of stay involved for our treatments or how we work with insurance companies directly to have you pay as little out of pocket as possible, we recommend visiting the section on Reasons to Choose ASC.

A bulging disc (also known as disc bulge) means 50% or more of a disc is being squeezed to beyond its adjacent vertebral body boundaries. Disc bulging generally indicates an increase of the spinal load and weakness of a spinal disc.
Disc degeneration refers to the changes of the spinal discs resulted from chronic wear and tear, or injury. These changes include loss of water in the central disc (disc desiccation), disruption of the disc annulus, and newly growth of pain nerve fibers into the damaged discs.
Disc herniation means moving central disc material (nucleus) through broken disc annulus. Depending on the location, a herniated disc may be contained (within the disc), extruded (outside of the disc), or sequestered (disc fragment falling out of the disc).
Disc tears generally refer to tearing of the disc annular tissue, which is often caused by disc degeneration and trauma. Central disc material (nucleus) often moves into the torn annulus, forming an interpositional disc herniation, or moves through the torn disc to the outside of the disc annulus, causing a disc herniation.

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