My Herniated Disc Success Story

I have a few quick recommendations: If you’re experiencing a lot of pain, constant from the moment you wake up until you fall asleep, you’re in a state of inflammation and exercise will increase it. You can find pain relief during night by sleeping in a sitting position but laying on your back. So basically you put something under your lower limbs to achieve a 90 degree angle in your hips and again in your knees. Just as if you were sitting. Make use of a TENS in this fase, it will numb the pain and increases blood flow. Apply it and open the area where the hernia is located. Probable your GP can explain you. A herniated disk will go trough 3 phases, the inflammatory phase which is very painful. Your auto immune system will be set in motion to recycle the herniated material. Next you have the tissue repair phase, the ruptured annulus fibrosus is being repaired and in this phase you can start up the Mckenzie procedure. After you went through this procedure you will end up in the tissue remodeling phase in which you need to start the correct exercises to remodel the new scar tissue so it becomes flexible. In all cases it’s of critical importance to be guided by a good GP. I ‘am not a health care provider, just an other victim who read the Mechanical Diagnostic & Therapy books of Robin Mckenzie. If your pain increases, go one step back. Assure you posture is correct at all time during the day, mind your lordosis! Remember, you’re not alone and self education is the key to succes. You need to understand your condition in order to deal with it in your everyday live. Good luck, I’m also still recovering. Oh, and if you run into a doctor that tells you a condition is for the rest of your live, you best seek help elsewhere. Very few conditions are for live, the body has an enormous capacity to heal itself. It only needs the right circumstances. One last tip, in the inflammation state, make tea from ginger, fresh curcuma root and black pepper. Flood yourself with it, it has remarkable benefits.

You are giving me some hope. I see the world falling apart infront of me.

Omg! Thank you! I felt like you were speaking directly to me. I’m praying I can heal over time.

Thank you so much for your testimony!! It was Super encouraging and I’m so glad you’ve had a successful recovery. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you so much for uploading this :) truly gave me hope, I’m going to commit and be consistent and get out of this! Congrats on your recovery, it must be so gratifying to see results after a long time.

Physiotherapist here. Great work Inspiring and excellent way of sharing your experience with others! Really Helps to show there is a light at the end of the tunnel. My bug bare is consultants telling their patients what they can’t do and how they have to change their life. Utter bullocks. People CAN live a full life and if not even more then what they did pre bulge with a diagnosis of a lumbar disc bulge or herniation. Most of us carry bulges without even realising. There is not taking away the horrendous pain you can have when one is acutely flared but be reassured MOST do settle and you can get back to your life! 🙏❤

Thank you so much for sharing your success story. As an over50-year old Ballerina, I pushed vigorously in the Forward Fold position of Yoga in order to stretch my hamstrings, touch the floor with my palms, and forward split as low as I could. My Yin Yoga Teacher, Ballet Teacher, and Primary Care Physician never told me the possible disc harm I was self-imposing. So, I kept pushing through the pain yo get my results and now I’m out of Ballet and in Physical Therapy to deal with a 1mm bulging disc between L4 and L5. I am depressed and feel hopeless, until I came across this vi

Great story! Makes me feel so much better and upbeat about my recovery and healing process.

…this video. Thank you SO much for providing your insights into your journey. I look forward to being healed completely and entering the Ballet once again.

Emma thanks so much. I got a disc bulge a month and some weeks ago and this video really helped. Thankbyou so much from the bottom of my heart.

Thank you for giving people with back pain hope. Thanks for telling us to be positive and proactive. And for telling us to do the work! ❤️ thank you thank you for giving us hope. It can be such a depressing experience.

Hi Emma . Thanks for sharing your story. You story has motivated me to never give up and try harder to recover from my back injury. I just re injured my back again doing incorrect stretches I got from from my physical therapist . 2 months ago I injured my knee at the gym . I am very active and landed on my knee wrong. I was sent by my doctor to start physical therapy. I was given a regiment stretches to do from my PT. For two weeks i did them without fail , and somehow bulged out another disk . My doctor is thinking L3 causing my upper legs to pinch in and burn. I been like this for 2 months. I been seeing my chiropractor and he feels it’s another disk injury. I will start PT again on Tuesday at Kaiser. If that doesn’t work . My doctor will send me to physical medicine to see a doctor for a steroid shot . I rather heal it natural like you did . You give me hope . You are amazing Emma for Sharing your courageous story with all of us of your journey recovering from your back injury. Thanks again . Be safe and be well 🙂

Thanks for sharing! Just one note on the cobra pose though: I learned from reading Dr. Stuart McGill's books that the cobra pose only helps people with more than 70% of disc height remaining, if you have significant disc height loss, the cobra pose can make it worse.

Thanks for sharing your recovery story, it certainly gives hope to the like of us who are going through similar situation! ❤

I've had a very similar arc to my injury and this video really brings me a lot of validation and optimism. Thank you.

THank you so much for sharing your Success Story. I have been suffering for almost 6 months now and I needed positive stories to keep me consistent and hopeful about a good future.

Thank you, I needed this. I recently injured my spine squatting heavy with poor form. 4 weeks later and I am still in discomfort every day. I am getting serious about my road to recovery now and my ultimate goal is to return to squatting and deadlifting pain free -- even if Im doing less weight than before. I'm really happy for you that you got over this issue. You are truly an inspiration. Best of luck in your journey and god bless.

This is almost exactly my story - right up to the cortisone shot, which I have scheduled for tomorrow. 3 months of pain and PT and I'm hopeful I can make a full recovery. This is very encouraging!!

It’s great to hear you are pain free after such a long journey. I currently have a herniated L5 pinching my nerve, running down my right side. Initially hurt my back last November but worked through it, good days/ bad days. I’d been training for an Ironman race taking place this Sunday! Had been going to physical therapy and getting acupuncture twice a week and things were going well training wise, swim was great, my bike was coming along, that’s where I had most of my pain, my right hamstring & glute really tightened up but we’re getting better after doing the prescribed stretches. I’d done most of my run training on the treadmill up until about seven weeks ago. Then after a couple of long road runs everything seemed ok. I literally sat into my car one morning and the pain in my hamstring/ glute was excruciating. I could barely walk. I’m currently only really pain free lying down, I have been doing the Mackenzie method and sill going to physio. I had an MRI and I had both an epidural and a steroid shot into my spine. It gave some relief but I still cannot walk more than 30/40 feet without having to lie down and stretch. Going for surgery next Thursday 18th. Hopefully it will take the pressure off the nerve and be pain free 🤞. It was great to hear your story and I hope you stay pain free.

Thank you for this video and congrats that you recovered