Can you get her to a McKenzie trained spinal specialist? (Physical therapist, D.O., or D.C., M.D., whatever)
Probably half my patient load is disc-y stuff. McKenzie is very cool, much more effective than anything else I've ever used. Best of all, it's all just a repetitive motion done by the patient and completely under the patient's control. The program is incredibly simple. No ultrasound, heat, cold, e-stim, massage, laser, iontophoresis...
The movements of the body put the disc out, the movements of the body can put it back in.
(if the disc wall hasn't ruptured and spewed the disc contents through the neighborhood or caused the patient to become incontinent or paralyzed or such, in which case the primary care doc send the patient straight to a surgeon)
http://www.mckenziemdt.org/
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