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Bulging Disc Recovery

Bulging disc recovery time varies from patient to patient and depends on a number of factors. These factors include:

• The severity of your pain and discomfort
• How long you have been experiencing back or neck pain
• The location of the bulging disc in your spinal column
• The amount of disc degeneration
• Your treatment plan

If you have been diagnosed with a mild bulging disc, it may be alleviated in a matter of a few days to a week. Your mild bulging disc pain may be reduced or eliminated by merely adopting good posture or sitting in an ergonomic chair at work.

When pain from a bulging disc is moderate, your recovery can take longer, perhaps up to six weeks. Moderate symptoms may be addressed by physical therapy, rest, over-the-counter-medications, and/or epidural steroid injections.

But, when a bulging disc results in pain severe enough to restrict your everyday activities, your recovery process may be much more extensive. A lengthy recuperation is especially probable if you undergo hospitalization and surgery to relieve your bulging disc symptoms.

Several bulging disc surgeries are aimed at relieving the pressure that a bulging disc places on nerve fibers in the spinal canal. Traditional surgeries, which require general anesthesia, include laminectomy, foraminotomy, and spinal fusion. In-hospital recovery time for these surgeries may last a few days. However, there is also a recovery period at home which can take weeks or months, depending on the individual. Sometimes, patients continue to have pain or may develop new and different pain years after surgery has been completed, so bulging disc relief is not truly achieved.

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If you’re concerned about the potential lengthy recovery period that accompanies open-back surgery, then you may want to consider the minimally invasive endoscopic procedures available at Laser Spine Institute (LSI). We offer gentle outpatient procedures to treat bulging discs and other spine conditions, and our recovery times are typically much shorter than those associated with traditional surgery. If you’re interested, contact LSI today for a free MRI or CT scan review.

Please note: Laser Spine Institute currently does not perform endoscopic procedures on the thoracic spine.