Pinched nerve treatment in Decatur and Atlanta is the topic of Dr. Castanet’s video here. He discusses the most common cause of a pinched nerve in the neck or low back, and the consequent radiation of pain you may feel. A pinched nerve in the neck will typically give rise to pain in the shoulder, between the shoulder blades, and down the arm. A pinched nerve in the low back will typically cause pain down the buttock, thigh, leg, and foot.
Since the usual cause of a pinched nerve is a herniated disc, it is essential to reduce the disc herniation to get pressure off the nerve root as quickly as possible. This requires physically, anatomically, and mechanically getting the disc off of the nerve root. That is our unique specialty at Backstrong Clinic. When a nerve is pinched, only one objective is essential, and that is to get the pressure off of the nerve.
Unfortunately, the usual treatment is an injection to reduce the inflammatory consequence of the disc herniation. Since inflammation includes four components, i.e. redness, swelling, heat and pain, and since injections reduce inflammation, the injection will reduce swelling, but will it help the swelling enough to reduce pressure on the nerve? Maybe, maybe not. But a better approach is to improve the disc physically, to get it off of the nerve and to have it heal better than it will if it’s simply injected. I recommend injections in about 5% of patients, for whom spinal decompression is not sufficient to resolve the pain. But most of the time injections will not be necessary, and that saves a lot of money, and the potential risks associated with injections, which are modest, but real.
If you need pinched nerve treatment in Decatur and Atlanta, Dr. Castanet provides Decatur physical therapy, Tucker physical therapy and Atlanta physical therapy. Or if you need an Atlanta chiropractor, Tucker chiropractor or Decatur chiropractor, Dr. Castanet is your best choice. And because Dr. Castanet’s treatment is so unique, in addition to pinched nerve treatment in Atlanta, Dr. Castanet has treated patients from all the surrounding Atlanta metro cities including Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Tucker, Decatur, Norcross, Johns Creek, Marietta, Alpharetta, Peachtree City, Doraville, Lilburn, Stone Mountain, Grayson, Lawrenceville, Suwanee and more.
