If you are one of many patients who are having difficulty in the lumbar spine and/or leg or cervical spine and/or arm you may be wounded with a disc herniation. Finally, you go to the repair and the diagnosis is - herniated disc. It is then your mind starts to inquire, "What is a herniated disc?"
Spinal Anatomy
It is very important for us to study the spine`s anatomy.
Most herniated discs occur in the neck or in the low back and are much less frequent in the mid back. Vertebra of the neck (cervical spine) are shaped differently from vertebra of the lower back. Still, the mechanism of how you intervertebral discs herniate, bulge, or protrude are similar.
Twenty-six bones called vertebra make up the spinal column. Shock absorbing cushions, intervertebral discs, are placed between each vertebra. Annular fibers of cartilage surround a thick liquid center called the nucleus. For the most part disc are almost without blood supply. Movements of the vertebra pump in the necessary nutrients to keep the disc alive. The disc begins to die if the vertebral joint cease movement.
The perimeter rings of the book have a very good nerve supply. The hot sticky gum like nucleus move like a bag of water just more slowly. When load on the body compresses the record the nucleus absorbs shock by causing the cartilage to expand and so prevent fractures of the vertebra.
Natural Degenerative Changes of Discs
Discs of the human skeleton, about the age of 25, begin to dehydrate causing the cartilage to get dry and brittle. Disc are often damaged early in life as we insert in activities that are highly compressive to the rear and disc. When power is exerted on our body, the ring fibers of cartilage begin to send and crack. The storm then causes the thick liquid center to spread into the crack causing the weakened cartilage to protrude, bulge, or herniate.
Injury to a buggy and torn disc is caused by:
1. putting pressure on a nerve
2. chemicals leak from the damaged disc and vex the nerve
3. or by stretching the nerves in the outer rings fibers of cartilage.
Herniated Disc Symptoms
Disc herniation symptoms in the cervical spine include:
a. cervical spine pain
b. radiating pain into the arm(s)
c. upper mid back pain
d. numbness in the arm(s)
e. arm(s) weakness
f. muscle spams in the arm(s)
Symptoms of disc herniation in the lower back include:
a. pain in the low back
b. leg pain, especially below the knee
c. numbness in the leg(s)
d. lower extremity muscle spasms
e. leg(s) weakness
Rare cases of disc herniation cause a loss of gut or bladder control (severe constipation or diarrhea or sponsor or inability to urinate). If you are experiencing lower back and leg pain or numbness associated with loss of gut or bladder control, go now to the hospital emergency room before your nerves are damaged permanently. This rare and rare check in both hurt and non- traumatic herniated disc of the lower back is called Cauda Equina Syndrome.
If you are suffering with herniated discs, I commend to the consider spinal decompression therapy.
Disc decompression therapy is:
1. extremely safe
2. effective most of the time
3. FDA cleared
4. non-surgical
5. most people can financially afford it.
Early diagnosis and word of herniated disc leads to early correction. Postponement of treatment runs the risks of more costly, invasive, and risky procedures.
Learn more about Austin Chiropractor. Stop by Austin Chiropractor, Dr. John D. Carlson`s site where you can get out all about Austin Herniated Disc Relief and what it can do for you. Dr. Carlson is restricted in spinal decompression.
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