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Non-Surgical Herniated Disc treatment

Discs heal just like your muscles and bones do. There’s a lot of fear in the world today about spine and disc injuries, but the truth is that the body is often highly capable of healing these things!

To be fair, a herniated disc sounds terrifying – the covering of the disc tears/ruptures and the gel-like disc material bulges out, sometimes pinching down on a nerve in your spine. 

This creates pain at the spot where the tear happened, and can cause radiating pain, numbness, and even weakness into your arms or legs, depending on what level in your spine the herniated disc happened.

Surgery isn’t super common with disc herniations, as the pain often goes away on its own after a couple days to weeks. It’s very important to try and stay active while your body is healing, taking advantage of movements that don’t cause a lot of pain so that your body keeps the blood moving around, effectively healing the herniation.

How Can Eternity Treat Disc Herniations?

The worst cases will sometimes go to surgery, but it doesn’t usually have the greatest results – you may come out of it with weaker discs that can easily get reinjured, which we obviously want to avoid!

Eternity uses Responsible Pain Management (RPM) to put the body into a state where its natural healing abilities are boosted. We do this by utilizing our cutting-edge stem cell therapy, along with our incredible integrative medicine approach.

This approach combines advanced medical diagnostics with regenerative and complementary medicine, allowing us to determine exactly where and why your pain and symptoms are happening, and then create a plan of recovery that’s customized to YOU! 

We’ll explore traction therapy, spinal decompression, medical acupuncture, and physical medicine/rehabilitation to get you living pain-free as soon as possible!

Book your consultation today, and we’ll have our highly-trained team take you through the recovery process, leaving your herniated disc in the past while avoiding surgery and drugs!

What We Do Here At Eternity?

At Eternity, we are most well-known for our integrated approach to healing. We combine western medicine, eastern medicine, and modern medicine approaches to ensure the highest patient outcomes possible, delivering the highest chance of healing and recovery. 

Our bodies are capable of healing and regenerating themselves if we provide them with the right opportunity to do so. 

This is what our non-surgical solutions are all about, creating an environment for the body to heal itself and avoid drugs and surgery.

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Get in touch with us today to take hold of your life in a way you never have before.

Frequently Asked Questions

Disc herniations are extremely common that can happen from lifting heavy objects, having a car accident, falling down from something high, or even from simple things like sneezing or bending over! Our best bet is to prepare our body for these different things, which we here at Eternity will help you do after we get the herniation healed!

Herniated discs often heal on their own, usually taking a couple weeks. Managing a disc herniation can be tricky, and living with the pain even for a short while can be a challenge. Our integrative medicine approach at Eternity is perfect for navigating your painful back, and putting your mind at ease with answers to any questions you may have!

Symptoms of disc herniation include pain localized to the spine, pain with numbness or tingling radiating down the leg or into the arms, and stiffness with movement. The most common disc herniations happen in your lumbar, or lower, spine and radiate down your legs.

We use integrative medicine to approach the problem from different angles, utilizing our special skills in stem cell therapy, platelet-rich plasma therapy (PRP), massage therapy, and healthy habits education to bring you back to pain-free living in record time!

Why Work With Us?

Our team at Eternity Health Partners is focused on providing exceptional care and guidance to our clients. Our team works with clients to understand their lifestyles and goals and to come up with an appropriate anti-aging approach.

Understand patient's lifestyle and goals

Perform in-depth laboratory tests

Analyze lab results and client lifestyle/goals

Define a wellness plan for the client

MEET ELIZABETH BECKNER AND DAISHA ESCAMILLA

OUR CALIFORNIA LICENSED PHLEBOTOMISTS

Liz started doing personal blood draws after her son, Dashiell, was born with Zellwegers disease. His diagnosis required numerous blood draws and drug levels throughout his life. After sitting through long wait times at the labs followed by watching many different phlebotomists, many new to the job, struggle to find his veins, often poking him multiple times, as a seasoned phlebotomist, Liz decided to draw his blood at home and hand deliver it to the lab myself. Soon after she began doing personal touch blood draws so she can now offer that same personalized service to you.

Liz graduated from Pepperdine University with a degree in Biology in 1994. She moved to Santa Barbara and earned her phlebotomy certificate in 1995. Liz began working at St. Francis Medical Center in the Physical Therapy Department and quickly transferred to the Laboratory. Perfecting her venipuncture techniques on all floors of the hospital, including post-operative patients, pregnant women going into labor, sick or premature babies, and emergency room patrons, she then improved her patient care skills working for internal medicine doctors, one of whom was the Medical Director of Hospice and won Doctor of the Year. In 1999, Liz started working with a group of local retinal surgeons. Her primary job consisted of injecting dye into arm veins and photographing its flow through the patients retinal vessels. When patients are worried about their diagnosis or apprehensive about the procedure because of difficult veins, her quick, almost pain free needle stick and kind but professional bed side manner would put them at ease.

The various settings and patients Liz has encountered over the years have enabled her to become very skilled at finding the smallest and most fragile of vessels. Her specialities include infants and the elderly, diabetics of all ages, patients with rolling veins, on blood thinners or chemotherapy. She lives in downtown Santa Barbara, travels from Goleta to Carpintera and brings all the necessary supplies directly to you. All she needs from you is a lab request and your home or office becomes an instant draw station. Appointment times are very flexible, and she is friendly, reliable and punctual. Be kind to your arm and treat yourself to the luxury blood draw you deserve!!!

MEET MICHAEL BROOKINS; BS, CNMT, ABAAHP

Mike brings more than just a medical perspective to his clients; at the age of 14, he began an athletic career as a pole-vaulter that would end up taking him on an incredible journey over the next 13 years of his life. Throughout his athletic journey Mike was constantly working to find the ideal balance of fitness and proper nutrition in order to maximize his performances. Combined with his medical knowledge the years of athletic experience provide a unique and successful combination that serve to benefit his staff and clients.

“After I shifted the focus of my practice from Sports Medicine into Nuclear Medicine specifically Interventional Endocrinology. I found myself questioning our western medical paradigm…Here I was performing thyroid cancer and Hyperthyroidism treatments with harmful radical thyroid radioactive ablations which really made me take a hard look in the mirror and become more of a researcher to find safer and more effective options to better treat my clients. During my research I realized that there were very few, if any, medically directed programs focused towards achieving a “Healthier Lifestyle” rather than typical “Diet” fads.” A few years later after training and working with some of the worlds foremost Bio-identical Hormone Replacement specialists I became Board Certified in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine. Sort of just found my passion and the answers I had been looking for with this new specialty finally after years of treating people with the Band-Aid “fix it when its broken” mentality instead of at the root cause.”

Mike has spent the last 10 years in Anti-Aging, Functional and Regenerative Medicine. He has trained over 120 physicians in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine and consulting for their practices. Today his vision is a reality, and clients from all of the world come to benefit from the successful programs that have been established at Age Management Institute Santa Barbara. He firmly believes in educating the patient about the importance of good nutrition, hormone balance, stress management, and regular exercise is the key to aging well and having a high quality of life well into your golden years.