A herniated disc is a common and often very painful disc disease. There are a estimate of treatment options (medication, physiotherapy, surgery), but most of them only supply temporary relief. The real salvage time span can vary from person to person depending on the chosen treatment method and the actual intensity of the disc herniation.
Since the source of the pain is separate for every herniated disc patient, it is very difficult to name a time duration for a recovery. But in most cases, when using customary treatment methods, the salvage duration can take years and there is no certainty that the pain will ever be healed this way. The intuit for this is that accepted treatments only take care of the symptoms of the problem, instead of focusing on the actual cause of it.
Think about it: pain killers are not made to take the pain for good, they only relieve the acute pain and as soon as you stop taking them the pain reappears (and the side-effects that come with it). Chiropractors and physiotherapists mostly treat what they (or the physician that sent you to them) think the problem is, but they are not able to find out the real cause of the pain. It is proven that more than half of the back pain surgeries completely fail to serve their purpose.
The only way to accomplish chronic results is to find out what the real root cause of your pain is. Most of the times there is a muscle imbalance going on in your back: some muscles are underdeveloped, while others are too strong. This leads to most of the back associated problems we hear of. Since it is so hard to outline out, most herniated disc patients never know what the actual origin of their pain is.
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