ruptured disc and the healing process

[slave2luv xxx-mas elf]

One of my clients had the disc between C6 and C7 rupture spontaneously around Christmas day. She had then an epidural that relieved a lot of the intense pain (she also had pain on left upper traps and tingling and numbness down to left little and ring finger).
She came for gentle acupressure that seemed to help for a few weeks.
Then she started having pain around the opposite shoulder blade. She had another epidural then and since that shoulder pain started nothing has helped. she is trying PT for the second time but feels wiped out and more sore from it, like "it is to intense and her body can't handle", like it is too rough for her.
My question is:
Does anybody have experience with the healing process of a ruptured disc? Would pain between the shoulder blades - actually in the whole upper back, down to the bra line - be related to the disc between C6 and 7? Could something else be going on?
I would appreciate any input. Thank you

 

[Tim J]

Absolutely the pain can be from the ruptured disc!!! My husband has partially herniated discs laterally at C5-C6-C7 and his entire posterior R upper quadrant and down the R arm to the fingertips can be most painful and problematic for him. In his case the discs are as good as they are going to be unless he relents and has surgical repair done............ since he hates the idea, he takes pain killers, grits his teeth, and does what he can to relieve the discomfort, muscle spasms, etc with electrostim, chiropractic assistance, home traction [occasionally] and massage.

In my husband's case, PT didn't help the situation much at all. The PT traction didn't do much to help, and one PT Assistant worked too deep into the supraspinatus and caused more damage [rrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!] He endured a series of 3 cortisone shots into the disc spaces under fluoroscopy with minimal benefit.

Your client may not be able to use massage or acupressure alone to relieve the symptoms you are describing. Her best bet would be to check with her physician and/or a neurologist for further examination.

 

[Tam Tam]

Thank you so much for your response. I was loosing hope that somebody would have any information.
My client has an appointment with the neurosurgeon next week and we will see what he says.
The acupressure gives temporary relief, and any more intense work, including gentle massage, seems to be counter productive, which matches the information I found in some old messages that it seems that with disc problems in the cervical spine, more is not better, in fact it could cause the muscles to spam.
Thank you