There have several treatments to be mentioned, when giving you some reading tips for pages related to herniated disc on this website. But before listing them we want to recommend an article that works as an introduction in the function, look and degeneration of a disc, also explaining what a herniated disc means and looks like. You can read this as an ABC about discs and then go on with special descriptions of procedures that are appropriate for this indication. So jump to intervertebral disc: function, look, degeneration first, if you had a tendency to get a basic background.

Among other indications as

protruding discs
intervertebral disc pain
stiffened, fixated discs

the herniated disc is one that is sometimes (under certain circumstances) treated by discography, an intradisc injection procedure

Another well-known procedure is the laser treatment of intervertebral discs which applies to protruding and herniated discs as well.

Reflecting on the astonishing post-nucleotomy syndrome (pain following herniated disc surgery) you may want to know, if there is any help after this has happened. The overview on injection treatment at the spinal nerve roots of the neck, thorax and lower back explains exactly what this specific method is about and used for. It counts among other indications the post-nucleotomy-syndrome as one the injection treatment is appropriate for.

But even short-term in-patient procedures belonging to interventional painmanagement or methods within out-patient pain management can be successful in many cases of acute and chronic pain following surgical treatment of herniated disks.

Patients who didn't get relief with conventional therapies applied to their herniated disc-problems may study our articles on the non-surgical spinal catheter technique and on percutaneous nucleotomy , representing two completely separate approaches to the indication "herniated disc".

With this said, it could be enlightening to compare this with the IDET-therapy, which just in contrast "is not appropriate in treating nerve root irritation caused by protruding or herniated disks. "

In the back pain forum you may select one of the following contributions concerning this theme :

For further questions about surgery and herniated disc we again recommend our partner site

symptoms, causes, treatments, surgery: herniated disc