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, ...

Your MRI report says that you have a herniated disc in your lumbar spine. This sounds scary and could be the source of your back and/or leg pain. Here is what you need to know and what your doctor ...

Last month we discussed that the higher level (L1-L2, L2-L3 and L3-L4) lumbar disc herniations present significantly different than the more common lower level (L4-L5 and L5-S1) lumbar disc ...

New therapeutic approaches to repair herniated discs in the lumbar spine using novel tissue engineering and regenerative medicine strategies have shown promising outcomes in preclinical studies ...

The addition of these discs to the 104 radiological type 1 herniations increased the incidence of type 1 herniation to 65%. Anulus fibrosus rupture caused lumbar disc herniation in 35% of patients.

Disc herniation cases are rising. It causes back pain due to disc damage. Symptoms include numbness, weakness, and lower back pain. X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs help in diagnosis. Exercises like cobra ...

Herniated Discs And A Never Ending Confusion Of Whether One Should Opt For Surgery A study finds, for patients with herniated discs in the lower (lumbar) spine, surgery leads to greater long-term ...

Duration of Symptoms Resulting from Lumbar Disc Herniation: Effect on Treatment Outcomes: Analysis of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT). The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 2011 ...

Cite this article Mut, M., Berker, M. & Palaoğlu, S. Intraradicular disc herniations in the lumbar spine and a new classification of intradural disc herniations. Spinal Cord 39, 545–548 (2001 ...

Differences in Lumbar Spine Anatomy for Kids with Herniated Disks To look for structural malformations that might predispose to herniated disks in children and teens, the researchers analyzed x ...

However, if the back pain becomes chronic or there are concerning symptoms (such as radiculopathy with leg weakness, loss of sensation and/or other focal neurologic signs along the course of the nerve ...