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💊Treatment Options

• 1Most cases improve with conservative measures including short-term rest
• 2gentle stretching and physical therapy
• 3and anti-inflammatory or muscle relaxant medications to manage pain and inflammation. Epidural corticosteroid injections may be used to reduce inflammation around the affected nerve root in more persistent cases. Surgery
• 4such as discectomy to remove the portion of disc pressing on the nerve
• 5is reserved for cases with significant or progressive weakness
• 6loss of bowel or bladder control
• 7or pain that fails to improve after several weeks of conservative treatment.