Life By Design Podcast

"Don't go to a chiropractor because they can cause you to have a herniated disc."   Hopefully, this is the first time you've heard this but, as is often the case, bad news travels much faster than good news.   Is this true?    A new study suggests that this is not the case at all. The study concludes that patients have the same risk of an acute disc herniation going to their medical doctor as they would going to the chiropractor with low back pain.   It's important to know precisely what these conclusions mean and how they affect you.   Low back pain can be a severe problem. Low back pain affects 70% of the population throughout their life and on any given day anywhere from 15-30% of the population is affected by low back pain.   An issue is that sometimes low back pain is prodromal to a lumbar disc herniation. Meaning that the individual has already suffered from an acute disc herniation and the nature of that injury has not fully expressed itself with the first symptom.   It would have appeared, on first in