| The medical indications or reasons why a doctor | | | | back pain sufferers with relief. For many patients, |
| prescribes my supports for their patients are as | | | | this gentle stretching of the spine is enough to |
| follows: severe low back pain, also known as | | | | enable the protruding, or herniated disc to re-seat |
| lumbago, or lumbalgia. Herniated or bulging discs, | | | | itself in the disc space. This will relieve the |
| also called HNP lumbar, which stands for Herniated | | | | symptoms relating to the pain caused by the disc |
| Nucleus Propulsus, when the center of the disc | | | | coming into contact with the sciatic nerve, |
| bulges out and makes contact with the Sciatic | | | | thereby relieving the pain, tingling and numbness |
| nerve, this condition also is called sciatica. Sciatica | | | | that many patients experience with the sciatica |
| refers to the pain caused when the disc | | | | and radiculopathy. With continued intermittent and |
| protrudes and makes contact with the sciatic | | | | repeated application of the spinal orthotic the |
| nerve and the pain runs through the buttock(s), | | | | patients' conditions improve over time, giving |
| down the leg(s) and radiates down into the foot. | | | | them ultimate freedom from the use of their |
| This is also known as radiculopathy. Many patients | | | | lumbar support orthotic. Patients suffering with |
| who present radiculopathy may also experience | | | | stenosis experience great relief with the use of |
| burning, tingling, numbness. or aching in their feet. | | | | my Lumbar Support Orthotic. Because of the |
| Other causes of low back pain are spinal stenosis | | | | degenerative and deteriorative processes that |
| commonly referred to as spinal arthritis. Stenosis | | | | lead to stenosis, those patients will improve over |
| is basically an arthritic deterioration of the | | | | time. As their spine is gently stretched the |
| vertebrae in the lumbar spine which basically | | | | arthritic welding may be reversed. |
| causes the vertebrae to weld together | | | | Those patients who present degenerative disc |
| accompanied by a deteriorative narrowing of the | | | | disease normally do very well with the use of my |
| spinal canal. Degenerative disc disease occurs to | | | | offloading lumbar support orthotic. As the orthotic |
| many people for a variety of reasons: as we age | | | | works to re-establish the normal, healthy, |
| our normal healthy intervertebral disc space | | | | intervertebral disc space, the structure of the |
| diminishes, this is compounded by gravity, poor | | | | support itself encourages the patients to use and |
| postural habits, an improper hydration (we do not | | | | engage the postural musculature of their lumbar |
| drink enough water), which in turn leads to disc | | | | spine. This lends itself, once again to the |
| space dessication and deterioration. Many adults | | | | rehabilitaional quality of the support, encourages |
| over forty experience a degree of degenerative | | | | the patients to be independent of the support. It |
| disc disease. This condition may cause the | | | | structurally encourages patients to improve their |
| effected vertebrae to ultimately fuse, in which | | | | posture and use the muscles in their low back. |
| case their pain normally diminishes, but it may be | | | | Patients with spondylolisthesis also normally do |
| quite painful in the interim. | | | | very well with the use of this support. It isolates |
| Other causes are spondylolisthesis, which is a | | | | and stabilizes the lumbar spine as well as providing |
| condition cased by vertebral slippage, normally at | | | | the offloading lift and re-establishment of the |
| the fourth or fifth lumbar vertebrae, or between | | | | normal healthy intervertebral disc space. In |
| the fifth lumbar vertebrae and the first sacral | | | | combination with the encouragement of the use |
| vertebrae. These are commonly referred to as | | | | of the musces and musculature of the lumbar |
| L4, L5, and S1. Spondylolisthesis is often the result | | | | spine and low back, it is truly a win-win situation |
| of a previous, unattended to injury, many athletes | | | | for the patients. |
| will injure themselves and the Spondylolisthesis | | | | Patients with lumbar sprain and spondylosis also |
| does not fully manifest itself or present for | | | | benefit greatly from the comfortable offloading |
| several years. It is graded as type I, or type II, | | | | support, the re-establishment of the normal, |
| depending on the severity of the slippage. There | | | | healthy intervertebral disc space, and the benefit |
| can also be certain genetic predispositions which | | | | of the encouragement and use of the muscles of |
| may present as spondylolisthesis. | | | | the low back. |
| Spondylosis, is another cause of low back pain. | | | | The use and prescription of an offloading lumbar |
| Spondylosis basically refers to a sick vertebral | | | | support orthotic should be in the first line of |
| body. This often leads to lumbar instability, which | | | | consideration for physician treating patients with |
| is also caused by other metabolic and disease | | | | low back pain. It is harmless, non-invasive, |
| conditions. Another common cause of low back, | | | | non-narcotic, and can only benefit the patients. It |
| or lumbar pain is known as lumbar sprain or strain, | | | | is not a brace, it's an orthotic support. A brace is |
| and it may be either chronic or more long term, | | | | like a cast, used to hold a structure or bone in |
| or acute which normally means sharp or sudden. | | | | place and immobilized so the healing process can |
| The medical and clinical benefits of an offloading | | | | take place. An orthotic is a rigid, or semi-rigid |
| lumbar support orthotic are as follows: the | | | | structure or device that applies a gentle force to |
| orthotic itself, by virtue of its application gently | | | | a specific area to mitigate, correct or promote |
| stretches the lumbar spine in an attempt to | | | | the healing of a diseased, malformed or injured |
| re-establish the normal, healthy intervertebral disc | | | | area of the anatomy. |
| space. This action in and of itself will provide many | | | | |