Taking Control of Your Back Pain

TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR BACK PAIN SEE A SPINE SPECIALIST to address your back pain, which may be caused by one of the following: CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY A NERVE of the upper spine is compressed by a herniated disc or bone spur PAIN, NUMBNESS or weakness may occur in the shoulder, arm, or hand TREATMENT OPTIONS NON-SURGICAL SURGICAL medication, use of a cervical posterior laminoforaminotomy collar or pillow, physical therapy, and discectomy or anterior epidural steroid injection cervical discectomy and fusion SCOLIOSIS SCOLIOSIS NORMAL THE SPINE TWISTS BACK PAIN and pressure on spinal and develops a side-to-side nerves may develop curve resembling an "S" TREATMENT OPTIONS NON-SURGICAL SURGICAL medication, bracing, spine straightening and vertebral fusion physical therapy SPONDYLOLISTHESIS ONE VERTEBRA slips forward over the vertebra below it THIS CAN DAMAGE the disc between the vertebrae and compress nearby nerves TREATMENT OPTIONS NON-SURGICAL SURGICAL pain medication, laminectomy with or without fusion physical therapy SPINAL STENOSIS CAN OCCUR IN ANY REGION OF THE SPINE (occURS 2-3 TIMES MORE COMMONLY IN THE LUMBAR SPINE) NORMAL STENOSIS DEGENERATIVE PRESSURE CAN. changes make the spinal cause nerve root compression and pain if in the lumbar spine canal too narrow If in the cervical or thoracic spine, myelopathy can occur TREATMENT OPTIONS NON-SURGICAL SURGICAL epidural steroid injection, laminectomy with or without fusion physical therapy LUMBAR DISC HERNIATION THE MATERIAL inside a spinal disc bulges and breaks through the outer disc membrane THIS CAN IRRITATE spinal nerves, causing numbness or pain in one or both legs TREATMENT OPTIONS NON-SURGICAL SURGICAL pain medication, epidural steroid injection, physical therapy laminotomy and discectomy, microdiscectomy, endoscopic discectomy INFOGRAPHIC PROVIDED BY Ilinois Neurological Institute www.midwestneurologicalexperts.com Sources: http://www.ini.org/services/spine-institute/ http://www.wabmd.com/back-pain/guide/back-pain-surgery http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00534 http://www.spine-health.com/conditions/spinal-stanosis/cervical-stenosis-myalopathy