So here’s my story, if you can, please recommend either a specific brace or a type that I should look into
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I have pretty bad(7-8/10) lower back pain, and mild(5-6/10) pain in the rest of my back(mostly just spine, although it’s more to the right side in my lower back)….and I saw an urgent care doctor since it was still open when I got off work and no regular doctors seem to have openings anyways.
They prescribed me ultram(which I couldn’t take due to drug interactions), then changed it to vicodin(5/500) and ibuprofen(800mg), that wasn’t enough so they moved me up to Norco(10/325), when I said that wasn’t enough they moved me down to tylenol #3…
they said that’s the highest they can prescribe, and like I said no other doctors have openings for at least a month
went to a physical therapist and did their exercises for a while with no improvement, so I stopped.
then I went to a chiropractor and he took x-rays and said I have mild scoliosis, my head is pushed forward too much and my shoulders are pushed back, I have subluxation throughout my back in various places, the bottom curve of my back is too extreme, while the curve in my neck is non existent.
please help me, I need any ideas of how to make the pain stop
I can’t afford the ER for a prescription, and I’m hoping a brace will not only fix my posture, but relieve me of the pain
Kidney problems from diabetes? Avoid all sugar and eat less carbs. Get tested.
County Hospitals and some clinics help the uninsured with low cost medical.
Excerpts from Dr. Ian Stokes 2010 SOSORT presentation on the possible effects of immobilization (AKA: scoliosis brace treatment) on spinal discs in scoliosis based off his rat tail research.
"Both vertebral and disc deformity contribute to the idiopathic scoliosis deformity, but the cobb angle measures both without distinguishing their relative magnitudes, which is approximately equal. Conversely, discs do not grow in height while adolescent deformity is progressing. It appears from a few studies that progression of scoliosis occurs initially in the discs and subsequently in the vertebrae. Nutritional compromise has been implicated premature disc degeneration on the concave (inside) side in scoliosis. Our rat tail model in which a curvature is imposed along with compression develops a ‘structural’ [Aka: permanent] disc deformity with tissue remodeling after 5 weeks, and we are studying the underlying mechanisms."
"The disc wedging structural changes in human scoliosis may result from reduced mobility"
"Disc deformity is a significant contributor to scoliosis, not specifically measured relative to vertebral deformity by cobb angle. Prevention of progressive disc deformity may require maintenance of mobility as well as reversal of loading asymmetry."
The developers of the Scoliscore™ genetic pre-disposition test did a comparison study of scoliosis brace treated patients vs. non-treated scoliosis patients and “genetically risk stratified” each group according to their Scoliscore™; which is to say they compared patients with low genetic risk to low genetic risk, and high genetic risk to high genetic risk. This allows for a more accurate “apples to apples” scoliosis treatment comparison.