The typical symptoms suffered by the patient with this spine pathology are an intense, burning, incapacitating pain together with a mood and sleep alteration and work incapacity. As well as tingling, numbness and superior member weakness (cervical hernias) or inferior member (lumbar hernia).

Morphlogically, the intervertral disk moves out of its typical position. This produces a local pain (lumbago,cervicalgy) and if it compromises the nerve roots the pain is expanded ( cervicalgy, brachialgy). The vertebral disk is a fibrocartilage located among the vertebras that allows the spine movement as a whole and its function is to soften the typical heavy loads sufferd by these articulations. If these loads are excessively increased by intense and long-time muscle contractures, as well as permanent misposture, or both situations; the affected disk alterates its chemical composition, it is dehydrated, its height decreases. Its colour gets darker as in the T2 MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) - photo 1 - its nutrition and strength is affected with the possibility of rupture ( extruded herniated disk).

In photo 2 we can observe the retraction of the hernia of the fifth lumbar disk after `MPS´ DSM treatment.

The’MPS’ treatment corrects the strengh unbalance that is the most frecuent herniated disk cause. So it decompresses the intervertebral articulation. The disk, having no longer a biomechanic cause to be out of its position, it is prone to reducing inflamation and coming back to its position. In this way, this treatment assists to the so called `natural history´ of the retracted hernia. The magnitud of the retraction of the disk depends on the integrity and the cicatrization of the fibrous ring. The disk content in the channel is phagocyted by the macrophages that are present through the blood vessels of neoformation.

When the compress on the lumbar nerves disappears, the cervicalgy symptoms are soften and the inferior member alterations lower. If it is a cervical hernia, the neuralgias and arm, shoulder and head tingling decrease. In these cases, the pain starts to decrease since the first treatment sessions. According to our statistics, the incapacitating pain can be reduced between 50% to 70% of its initial intensity within 72 hours after treatment has started for the extruded herniated disk cases.

The biomechanical decompression effect, the cognitive capacity on the affected area acquired by the patient and the change in muscle tone decreasing allow using minimal medicine doses when allergy is present. Once the natural mechanical decompress on the spine or other articulations is attained we can prescribe medicine to assist cartilage integrity. MPS sessions at interval according to each case allow maintaining an adequate tone muscle preventively.