Ninety percent of Americans suffer from back pain at some point suffer in life. Of these, ten percent is known as chronic back pain, pain that lasts longer than three months.
One of the reasons chronic pain is disc degeneration, which can cause pain that refers to boot from the disk. The intervertebral discs are the shock absorbers between the vertebrae in the spine bone.
The disc has a nerve supplyand then the pain. The nerves coming from the outside of the disk, called a ring. When the lumbar disc degeneration of the spine or trauma experience, and there is damage to the annulus, can be very painful. The inside of the disc, the nucleus has no nerve endings and feel pain. This can lead to a donut, where the jelly does not hurt at all, and the outer shell of the ring can be compared be painful, like it or cracksTears.
What about bulging disc? Over forty percent of people over age 40 have protruding disc. It 'similar to a passenger car tires lose air and begins to swell from the weight of the car. In the event of a bulging disc in the human spine, is not always painful. In fact, bulging disc harder in humans is not painful and are easily visible in the images as an incidental finding.
Once the ring has tears or cracks to trauma or degeneration, can cause pain.This pain can be a lot in the back and may even radiate into the buttocks or the area next. When inflammation occurs, and wrapped one of the nerve roots that arise from the spine, sciatica, it is also possible to experience the so-called chemical radiculitis.
There is no gold standard diagnostic test to see if the disc is the source of back pain to learn. Lumbar discography is an outpatient study that reproduce the pain in the back, tried to do the realThe diagnosis of symptomatic degenerative disc disease. It is a painful test and will not help the patient's symptoms. It can only be continued for a diagnosis.
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