Bulging Discs

Discussions from our Radio Show:

CALLER: I have baseball injury and I play golf at least once a week, and once maybe twice a year I will aggravate this old back injury, a bulging disc. Anything that you can recommend?

Dr. Darrow: At some point you probably sprained the iliolumbar ligament. I am a little bit guessing here because I can’t touch you, but if you are sore, if you can press your thumb right above your pelvis and that is the sore area, that is where the iliolumbar ligament is and that is what attaches the pelvis to the spine and for people, especially golfers where they make a big turn and swinging their club at like 100 miles an hour and then torquing their body’s, it stretches their ligaments way out, it is like a rubber band that has been stretched too far and it doesn’t come back to its original size until we do Prolotherapy and it brings it back into alignment. Do you have any leg pain with your back pain?

Caller: No

Dr. Darrow: I am pretty sure if that we palpitated the area for you it would be pretty sore and Prolotherapy could help heal that right up. Why don’t some injuries heal?

I mentioned before, the areas that don’t heal typically don’t have a very good blood supply so they don’t have a chance to have the nutrients that they need to heal or to have the cells, the chondroblasts or the fibroblasts come to the area through the blood system to help grow more tissues, what happens is, most injuries are what we call strains or sprains where the area is stretched out. What happens is that they never grow back on their own, so what we are left with is a constant pain generator until we can do Prolotherapy to rejuvenate it and grow more tissue there and bring it back to its pre-injury state.  Sometimes, your injury may require a personal injury lawyer.  We do not endorse anyone, but sometimes will provide helpful links and resources.