Back Pain Doctors In Roseville, Minnesota

Are you suffering from back pain?  If you are suffering from back pain and it has not resolved or perhaps it is chronic then an MRI may be recommended by your physician.  Or, perhaps you have the results of your MRI but are struggling to put the information together from the MRI results and your back pain.  It is important that your back pain doctors in Roseville, Minnesota take the time to explain your MRI results and what that means for improving your back pain.

There is a lot of important information we can obtain by performing an MRI.  Unlike an X-ray an MRI can better visualize many of the soft tissues such as the disks.  The disks are a common cause of acute and chronic back pain and act as a shock absorb-er between each vertebrae.  There are two key factors from an MRI that we want to identify.  The first factor we want to establish is whether we are dealing with a bulging disk or a herniated disk.  If you think of the disk as a jelly doughnut, if the doughnut is deformed but the jelly is contained, we are dealing with a bulging disk.  If the jelly is outside of the doughnut then we are dealing with a herniated disk.  Secondly, after we have established bulging vs herniate, we want to determine if the bulging disk or herniated disk is impinging upon or pinching a nerve.

Obtaining this key information can lead to appropriate treatment.  If the disk is herniated there tends to be a greater inflammatory response.  Inflammation is something that can cause pain.  If the disk is bulging without a herniation there tends to be less of an inflammatory response.  Thus, a bulging disk will tend to recover faster compared to a herniated disk.  There is good news!  Both bulging and herniated disks respond well to spinal manipulation.  The spinal manipulation is very effective at reducing back pain.  The back pain doctors in Roseville, Minnesota that specialize in spinal manipulation are Doctors of Chiropractic.

If you are looking for effective back pain relief, please call our office at 651-779-5998 for a free no-obligation consultation.  We focus on getting patients out of pain and out of our office in the fewest visits possible.  We specialize in short term care for neck and back pain.

We serve many patients in Roseville, MN, Saint Paul, MN, Shoreview, MN, Arden Hills, MN, and Falcon Heights, MN.