Herniated Disk

What is this condition?

Herniated disc is a problem that starts again, if all or any part is the soft, central part of an intervertebral disc weakened by the glass or torn outer ring forced. If this happens, the protruding plate against nerve roots or the spinal cord itself rub, leading to back pain and other symptoms of pinched nerves. Herniated discs affect mainly men under 45.
What are the causes?

Disc herniations can be difficult from a fall or strain, or resultjoint degeneration are related. In older people, whose plates started to degenerate, a minor injury can cause disc herniation. Most disc disease (90%) occurs in the lower back, 8%, in the neck, and 1% to 2%, on the chest.

A person with this disease, which can lower back with a small spinal canal or who has an unusual spinal bone formation and born more susceptible to pinched nerves, damaged.
What are the symptoms?

The main symptom of back pain herniated discseriously, is lower back pain that radiates buttocks, legs, and feet, usually on one side. If the disk was injured in a fall, the pain may begin suddenly, repeat fade in a couple of days, and deepened. Hip pain follows the beginning as a dull pain in the buttocks. Coughing, sneezing or bending increases the pain and sometimes causes muscle cramps.

Herniated disc can also cause numbness around the jammed spinal nerves, and in later stages, weakness of leg muscles.

How Toit diagnosed?

The doctor will ask you for detailed information about what causes pain because it helps pinpoint the damage. The person will be made by several feet, check raising and other tests to detect movement of a pinched nerve. A spinal X-ray will not damage the hard drive, but other causes of leg pain or numbness.

After the physical examination and X-rays, additional scans with a dye or multiple views of a more accurate picture can show the disc herniationMaterial.

How is it treated?

Treatment depends on the severity of damage that are made by the herniated disc and may include the following:

• several weeks in bed, possibly in the pelvic traction, unless nerve damage quickly away. This conservative treatment progresses to a training program. The person may use a hot pad and aspirin to reduce inflammation and swelling. Sometimes the doctor or muscle relaxants, writes rarely, corticosteroids.

• operation for a herniated disc, which does not respond to conservative treatment. The most common procedure, known as laminectomy, involves removing a portion of a thin plate of bone and the protruding disk. If surgery does not relieve symptoms, spinal fusion may be necessary to stabilize the spine.

• disband rather than laminectomy, injection of an enzyme called Chymodiactin in the herniated disc to the hard drive of the nucleus, or micro-surgery to remove fragments of damagedHard drive.