The Villages, Florida
Herniated Disc Treatment
in The Villages, FL
Straight answers about a disc finding, and a non-surgical plan built from an examination, at 929 US-441 #404, Lady Lake, FL 32159. The first visit is the $47 consultation, exam, X-rays if needed and report of findings.
- Lady Lake office
- Non-surgical, drug free
- 22 years in practice
- $47 new-patient exam
Medically reviewed by Dr. Justin Bergin, DC Updated September 18, 2026
You already have the scan, and nobody explained it?
A lot of people who call this office about a disc already have the imaging. It was taken somewhere else, months ago, and the report used words nobody sat down and explained.
Desiccation. Protrusion. Foraminal narrowing at two levels. By then somebody has usually already raised an operation.
Does a finding on the scan explain the pain in your leg?
A disc finding on a scan and the reason your leg hurts are not automatically the same thing. By seventy almost every spine shows wear on imaging, including a great many that have never given their owner a moment of trouble.
Working out which finding matches your symptoms takes an examination, not a second reading of a radiology report.
Who examines you at the Lady Lake office?
Dr. Justin Bergin, DC does that examination himself at 929 US-441 #404, and reads whatever imaging you bring against what the testing finds.
He will tell you whether the table is a sensible use of your money, or whether you belong in front of a spine surgeon.
A herniated disc is inner disc material pushed through a tear in the tougher outer ring, often landing against a nerve root. Spinal pain plus pain, numbness or weakness traveling down a limb is the pattern. Most settle without an operation. Care at this address is non-surgical and built from what the examination finds rather than from an imaging report. First visit is $47.
This page covers The Villages specifically. The neutral herniated disc page covers the clinical picture for both offices.
Symptoms
What The Villages patients describe when they call this office.
- Back or neck pain first, then the limb joining in
- A line of pain running from the buttock into the calf
- Numbness over one patch of shin, foot or hand
- Sitting through a meal being worse than walking a mile
- Pain that spikes when you cough or clear your throat
- Losing the last few inches of bending to reach your shoes
- A leg that feels heavy on the stairs
- Everything easing within a minute of lying flat
- An imaging report handed over and never explained
Common causes
Disc drying that is ordinary at this age
Discs lose water content decade by decade, flatten, and share load less well than they did. This is why imaging of a seventy year old spine nearly always shows change, and why the report on its own settles very little.
A tear in an outer ring that was already worn
The outer ring frays over years and then gives way during something unremarkable. Lifting a case into the boot. Turning while holding a bag of mulch. Patients remember the movement and are surprised by how small it was.
Levels that have stopped sharing the work
When two or three segments stiffen, the neighboring disc takes the bending they no longer do. That is usually the level that fails, and it is also the level sitting next to an old fusion.
Long stretches of sitting and driving
A seated spine loads a lumbar disc harder than a standing one does. The drive to see family and the flight north for part of the year both hold the disc in the position it tolerates least.
A narrow opening that was tight before the disc failed
In an older spine the opening a nerve root exits through is often already narrowed by arthritic change. A modest herniation into a tight opening causes far more trouble than a large one into a roomy opening.
How we treat it at our Lady Lake office
Nothing here starts from the scan. Dr. Justin Bergin, DC tests the nerve, finds the level that reproduces your symptoms, and reads whatever imaging you brought against those findings. Where the two agree, the plan unloads that disc and settles the root beside it. Where they disagree, you are told so, and the plan changes.
Decompression at the level the examination found
Controlled cycling traction applied to one identified level, taking pressure off the disc and the nerve root beside it. The limit belongs in the same paragraph: the table unloads a disc while you lie on it and gives an irritated root room to settle. It does not rebuild a worn disc or widen an arthritic opening.
Electroanalgesia when the leg will not let you sleep
Nerve pain at three in the morning is what talks people into operations they never wanted. Neuromed delivers specific electrical waveforms into the limb to interrupt that signalling while the mechanical work goes on. It is a self-pay protocol, and it treats the pain rather than the herniation.
Chiropractic care around the injured level
Segments above and below a painful disc lock down to guard it, and that guarding keeps loading the injury. Adjusting returns motion there, with lower-force technique selected for an acute disc or a thinner bone density rather than applied by habit. This portion bills insurance, verified before you start.
Rehabilitation after disc surgery you have had
Patients here arrive with a discectomy or a fusion behind them and a fresh complaint at the level next door. The operation dealt with the compression. It did not change how the spine gets loaded afterwards, and that is the part picked up here, in step with your surgeon's advice.
Our Lady Lake office
Chiromed Wellness Centers929 US-441 #404
Lady Lake, FL 32159
- Monday8:30am to 1:00pm and 2:30pm to 6:30pm
- TuesdayBy appointment
- Wednesday8:30am to 1:00pm and 2:30pm to 6:30pm
- Thursday8:30am to 1:00pm and 2:30pm to 6:30pm
- FridayBy appointment
- Saturday and SundayClosed
Dr. Justin Bergin, DC performs the examination personally at this office, 22 years into practice. Full office details are on our Lady Lake office page.
What we are near
Where exactly is the office on US-441?
The office sits at 929 US-441 #404, Lady Lake, FL 32159, on North US-441 a short way above the CR 466 junction. Look for suite 404.
Parking is at ground level directly outside, with no garage and no stairs to manage. That matters when sitting in a car has become the worst part of your day.
Can I come by golf cart?
Golf carts are common here and the paths change, so call the front desk on (352) 915-7150 for the current route before you set out.
Which communities do patients drive in from?
Patients travel in from across The Villages and from Lady Lake, Summerfield, Wildwood, Oxford, Fruitland Park and Leesburg, over Sumter, Lake and Marion counties.
Spanish Springs Town Square is the nearest of the three squares. Lake Sumter Landing is a straightforward drive and Brownwood Paddock Square is the longest run.
What else is nearby?
The Lake-Sumter State College campus in Leesburg is about ten miles south east, and UF Health The Villages Hospital is close by. We are not affiliated with either.
Which days does this office treat?
Treating days are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM and 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Tuesday and Friday are by appointment, and the office is closed Saturday and Sunday.
Our Lady Lake office is a short drive from the Lake-Sumter State College campus in Leesburg, and we serve the same tri-county community. We are not affiliated with the college.
ChiroMed is an independent practice. Naming nearby hospitals, colleges or landmarks describes where we are, not who we are affiliated with. There is no affiliation, partnership or endorsement of any kind.
- The Villages
- Lady Lake
- Summerfield
- Wildwood
- Oxford
- Fruitland Park
- Leesburg
Independent background: Low back pain, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Patient experience at our Lady Lake office
Is there a review about disc care at Lady Lake?
Lady Lake is the newer of the two offices and its review file is short.
Nothing written about this address mentions disc care, so no review is offered here as proof of it.
What can be said plainly about disc care instead?
What can be said plainly is that Dr. Justin Bergin, DC does the examination himself, and that patients get told when a spine surgeon is the better next phone call.
From the ChiroMed Journal
Longer reading on this subject, written by the practice rather than bought in.
- When Nerve Symptoms Mean Your Disc Needs Space, Not Rest
Tingling or pain down a limb behaves differently from ordinary back pain. Here is how to tell whether disc pressure is driving it and what decompression does.
Herniated Disc in recent research
These sources are independent of this practice and none of them endorses it. They are listed so the reasoning behind the care can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Prediction and Mechanisms of Spontaneous Resorption in Lumbar Disc Herniation: Narrative Review
Sets out how often herniated material shrinks on its own and what predicts it, which is the evidence behind giving a disc time before an operation.
- Herniated Disk
A patient-level account of what a herniation is, how it is diagnosed, and which findings mean the problem has stopped being mechanical.
What to expect
Your first visit, step by step
A disc plan at this office gets decided at the report of findings, never on the phone. Strength in the affected limb is rechecked at each visit, since that is the single finding that changes what happens next.
Get in touch
Book at our Lady Lake office
Choose The Villages on the form and the Lady Lake desk calls you back during office hours. Leave a message after hours and they call back the next open day.
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Send the form
Two minutes. Tell us what hurts and which office is closer.
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We call you back
A real person, during office hours, to find a time that works.
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Exam and answers
History, orthopedic and neurological testing, imaging on site when it changes the plan.
- $47 consultation, exam, X-rays if needed and report of findings
- Payment plans available on the self-pay programs
- Booking for our Lady Lake office
The Villages questions
Tap a message for the honest answer. Call The Villages (352) 915-7150
I had an MRI at another clinic. Do I need a new one here?
Usually not. Bring the discs and the written reports to the first visit and they get read against the examination findings. A repeat scan is worth the trouble when the imaging is several years old and your symptoms have changed pattern, when there is weakness, or when the findings point at a surgical problem. Paying for the same picture twice helps nobody.
Almost everyone my age has disc degeneration on a scan. So why does mine hurt?
That is the right question, and it is the one the examination exists to answer. Wear on imaging is close to universal past sixty and much of it is silent. What matters is whether the level that looks worn is the level that reproduces your symptoms when it is tested, and whether the nerve leaving that level is the nerve serving the patch of skin that has gone numb. When those line up, the finding is real. When they do not, the report is describing your age rather than your problem.
Can I be seen on a Tuesday or a Friday at the Lady Lake office?
Not at this address. The Lady Lake office treats Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM and 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Tuesday and Friday are by appointment, and it is closed Saturday and Sunday.
Our Lakeland office keeps its own schedule, set out on the treating days published for the Lakeland office. Plan a disc course around these three days, and the front desk will block the times out with you on the phone.
Will Medicare pay for spinal decompression?
Coverage varies by carrier, and some services may only qualify as cash-pay. Decompression runs here as a self-pay program that is quoted in writing before anything is booked. The chiropractic care delivered alongside it does bill insurance, and the front desk verifies your benefits before the first visit, Medicare and Medicare Advantage included. Payment plans are available for self-pay care. You hear which part is which before you agree to anything.
I have osteoporosis. Is decompression still safe for me?
Sometimes yes and sometimes no, which is why the screening happens before the plan. Severe osteoporosis is one of the situations where the table is not appropriate, along with certain fractures, some instrumented spinal surgery and an abdominal aortic aneurysm. A number of patients at this office are told they are not candidates, and are given a plan that does not involve traction at all.
How far is the office from Spanish Springs, and can I come by cart?
Spanish Springs Town Square is the closest of the three squares to us, a short run up North US-441. A lot of patients here do travel by cart, though the paths and crossings change often enough that a route printed on a page would be out of date within the year. Call (352) 915-7150 and the front desk will talk you through the current way in from your village and where to leave the cart. Parking is at ground level right outside suite 404.
Same-week appointments
The Villages care, without the drive.
Call (352) 915-7150 or book online. Dr. Justin Bergin, DC performs the examination personally.
Consultation, Exam, X-Rays (If Needed) & Report of Findings: Only $47