Kyung Lee

If you leave your herniated disc untreated, then in time the disc will only get less hydrated, and disc height will slowly diminish, causing inflammation, and impingement of the spinal nerves that innervates to your upper or lower extremities. You can have weakness in the extremities, tingling numbness sensation, spastic muscles, radiating shooting down the back or extremities. These symptoms make it unbearable to find a comfortable position to sit, stand and even sleep. The earlier you get it treated the better chance of it from getting worse. You can have tremendous pain with movement, coughing/ sneezing, and bearing down. At its worse stage, it'll cause degeneration within the disc space.

There are a lot of good exercises to improve posture, its hard to say it without showing it to you. There are good exercises on Youtube, but if there are any pain when doing exercises make sure to stop and not push it. I recommend exercises from yoga.

It depends on your symptoms and condition. Every patient is different, and will respond to Chiropractic differently. It does not work like in a text book. But with regular chiropractic care, and home care as assigned by your doctor, will help recover at a faster rate.

Decrease range of motion, weakness, spastic muscles, and most importantly pain with movement.

They are both good ways to alleviate back pain, a combination is best but chiropractors can find the main cause, work on the soft tissue and adjust the spine, rather than just massage.

Of course! We are trained to treat any extremity pain, including elbow pain.