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. ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

Barbera J, Gonzales-Darder J, Garcia-Vazquez F . Intraradicular herniated lumbar disc: Case report J Neurosurg 1984 60: 858–860 Article CAS Google Scholar Ergüngör MR, Kars ZH .

From my general experience with disc disease in runners, it’s L5-S1 and L4-L5 that give way. I am not sure if you had a free disc fragment that was removed or a herniated disc that was dissected ...