Your doctor will diagnose a herniated disc with a physical exam and, sometimes, imaging tests. With treatment, most people recover. Treatments include rest, pain and anti-inflammatory medicines, ...

There were increases in the mean lumbar vertebral column length (1.45 percent elongation after 30 minutes; P < 0.001) and the mean disc reduction ratio with time of traction (8.57, 15.24, and 17. ...

Majority (95%) of herniated discs occur at the lower lumbar spine (L4/5 and L5/S1 level). It is important to differentiate herniated disc with spinal cord compression, or cauda equina syndrome.

Disc bulging with flattening of the spinal cord and narrowing of the outlet for the spinal nerves at L2-L3, L3-L4, L4-L5, and L5-S1. The right L4 and L5 nerve roots are compressed by a disc.

Intradural disc herniations comprise 0.26–0.30% of all herniated discs. In all, 5% are found in the thoracic, 3% in the cervical, and 92% in the lumbar region. 1 The first report of an ...

Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite athletes as compared with published literature of changes seen in non-athletes—that is, normal population.

Everybody dreads hearing, "You have a bulging disc." Putting that name to the throbbing in your leg and the sharp pain in your back somehow makes your symptoms worse. Contrary ...

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Association between menopause and lumbar disc degeneration. Menopause, 2017; 1 DOI: 10.1097/GME.0000000000000902 ...