For healing a herniated disc correctly,, you have to address the precise causes of your herniated disc, and not just the symptoms, and apply precise corrective measures to the real causes.
Believe it or not, an improper posture of your body, can cause muscle imbalances ( the most common cause of herniated discs) usually over a long time interval, and in turn cause compression of your spinal vertebrae and nerves.
Your physical posture is a decisive factor, in terms of healing a herniated disc and the prevention of a herniated disc, as is becoming fully aware, of the role your negative emotions play in leading you to a proper or improper posture. As for example, you have seen people in good mood, walk and stand upright, and not slouching over.
If you are slouching over, that is an instance of postural dysfunction, that causes your muscle group or groups to be pulled out of balance, leading to muscle imbalance over time. Because it is the muscles and ligaments that are holding your spinal bones in their correct positioning, any muscle group shifting will pull your spine-vertebrae out of natural position. That in turn puts uneven pressure on the disc by compressing it, and so you have a herniated disc as the final result.
For purposes of illustration, take a pastry filled with jelly. Now imagine considerable pressure being placed on top of the pastry, but with one side being pressed more than the other. What do you think is going to happen to the jelly? Of course, it is going to bulge out from the opposite side, from the pressure that is being exerted.
Enough pressure, causes the jelly to break through the pastry. But, if the pressure was applied evenly on the entire pastry top surface, then the pastry and the jelly compresses, but the jelly stays totally intact.
In the same fashion, when muscle imbalances pull your spine out of natural balance, then the spinal discs between the vertebrae are unnaturally forced to sustain more weight and stress on one side compared to the other, as in the pastry example above.
Whenever muscle imbalances persist over time, the disc wears down, at times causing a ruptured disc, but more commonly a bulging or herniated disc.
There is a very effective ancient technique, that can be done at home, mostly ignored by medical professionals, that can, using an inversion table, remove the uneven pressure from the disc, by a proper decompression of your spinal column, thus healing a herniated disc.
Secondly, there are very specific exercises for a herniated disc, that re-balance the exact muscle group or muscle groups that are at issue, and that in turn directly pulls the herniated disc back in natural position.The specific exercises for healing a herniated disc can be done at home. To know more, go to : Herniated Disc Heal
