Bulging Disc Info
Bulging Disc Symptoms Can be Reduced and Even Eliminated with Laser Spine Surgery
Bulging disc symptoms can range from mild tingling to throbbing pain that radiates to your fingertips or toes, forcing you to forgo daily activities like work and exercise. That’s because a bulging disc, which has deteriorated from wear and allowed the inner core to extrude into the spinal canal, can press on a nerve. The severity of the pain depends on how hard it’s pressing the nerve, and the pain location depends on where in the spine the affected disc is located. If the bulging disc symptoms are felt in the legs and feet, then the bulging disc is located in the lumbar region, or lower back. This condition can also cause back pain as well as leg weakness. If the bulging disc is located in the cervical section of the spine, near the neck, you may experience pain that radiates into the shoulders, down the arms and into the fingers. All of these bulging disc symptoms can worsen when extra pressure is put on the nerve - this extra pressure can result from seemingly harmless activities like sneezing, coughing, driving or even sitting still. Fortunately, you don’t have to accept this pain as part of normal life. Laser Spine Institute may be able to treat it with a surgery that’s safer than the traditional open back treatment used to treat bulging disc symptoms.
Bulging Disc Treatment at Laser Spine Institute Can Reduce Your Painful Symptoms Quickly
Living with bulging disc symptoms can be more than painful, they can rob you of the activities you enjoy or even a good night’s sleep. That’s because a bulging disc, also known as a ruptured disc or a slipped disc, has degenerated to the point where tissue from the inner core protrudes into the spinal canal, putting pressure on nerves. When this occurs, pain can radiate all the way to your feet and hands, depending on where in the spine your bulging disc is located. It can make anything from sitting at your desk to gardening unbearably painful if the symptoms are bad enough. If you’re experiencing any of this pain you’ve likely gone in search of bulging disc treatment, but you may have found that the options are more invasive than you’re comfortable with. That’s because traditionally, bulging disc treatments have required open back surgery that often meant cutting through bone and muscle, leaving patients to deal with a long, arduous recovery. Complications, including infection and more back pain, are all part of that package. But today you don’t have to except those risks to return to a pain-free life. Laser Spine Institute has a better bulging disc treatment to offer.
Many Bulging Disc Patients Can Be Helped with LSI’s Laser Surgery
A bulging disc is an injury that often occurs in your 30s or 40s when you are engaging in a strenuous activity. Whether you’re playing a fun game of touch football or are straining your back while moving furniture, a bulging disc happens when the soft cushions, or discs, between your vertebrae become weakened. Sometimes the disc tears and pushes through to the spinal cord, pressing on nerves and causing discomfort. If the bulging disc is in your lower back, it can cause pain, tingling, and numbness in the legs. In the neck, a bulging disc can cause pain that radiates to your shoulders, arms, and fingers.
Bulging Disc Treatment at Laser Spine Institute: A 5-Day Process to Relief
A bulging disc can put direct pressure on the nerves of your spine, sending pain and other uncomfortable sensations to various parts of your body. Depending on the location of your bulging disc, you may experience pain down your back and into your legs, or soreness in your neck, shoulders, and arms. When the symptoms of a bulging disc do not go away on their own in a few months, you may need surgery to treat the condition.
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A bulging disc that is causing you pain can leave you with a host of questions: What if the bulging disc doesn’t heal on its own? What if the pain persists no matter what I try? What if my doctor recommends surgery? Are there less invasive options available?
When a Bulging Disc Requires Surgery, Consider Gentle, Outpatient Surgery at LSI
A bulging disc - which also may be called a ruptured disc or a slipped disc - occurs when one of the small, spongy discs between your vertebrae becomes damaged and breaks open. If the bulging disc presses upon the nerves of your spine, it can be very painful. The location of your pain depends on the location of your bulging disc. If the damaged disc is in your lower back, you will feel pain in your hips and legs; if it is in your neck, you will feel pain in your shoulders and arms.
Disc Protrusion Treatment
The first and most important thing to do is follow controlled physical activity. A short period of bed rest is the primary step. A gradual return to your normal activities is next. Sitting should be avoided, most especially for extended periods of time. When we are seated, we place a great deal of stress and pressure on the lumbar spine.
Exercises For Bulging Discs
With most back injuries rest is usually all that is required for your back to start to feel better. Resting in a comfortable position on a firm mattress will help to take the pressure off of your spine and the muscles around it. One suggestion to relieve some of the back pain from a bulging disc is to place a pillow under your knees while you are resting. If you stay in bed for more than two or three days of bed rest you may be worsening the situation as your back muscle will start to weaken from lack of activity. When returning to a normal life style (although not as active at first) you may still feel pain in your back from your bulging disc but your normal daily activities are good for your muscles, helping them strengthen to give your back more support.
Disc Protrusion Information
There are 24 bones that make up the spinal column. These bones are called vertebrae and are divided into three areas. The neck (or cervical spine) has seven vertebrae. The second area is the middle back (or thoracic spine) and has 12 vertebrae. The third area is the lower back (or lumbar spine) and has five vertebrae.
Bulging Lumbar Disc
Being fairly common in young adults and older people, bulging disc can affect just about anyone. Most times they are not a cause for panic and are often discovered by accident while having another medical problem examined. Abnormalities, such as bulging or protruding discs, are seen at high rates on MRIs in patients both with and without back pain. Some discs most likely begin to bulge as a part of both the aging process and the degeneration process of the intervertebral disc. A bulging disc is not necessarily a sign that anything serious is happening to your spine.
Bulging Disc Treatments
A bulging disc is not a cause for panic as they are fairly common in both younger and older people. A bugling or protruding disc is usually see at high rates on MRIs in patients that suffer with back pain and are also found in patients that are not suffering from back pain. Aging process and the degeneration process of the intervertebral disc are the most common reasons why a disc will bulge.
Bulging Disc Therapy
It is important to be aware of the disc’s function in the anatomy of the spine to gain a better understanding of the condition you suffer from and in determining the appropriate treatment.
Bulging Disc Symptoms
The result of inflammation caused by irritation or injury to the disc, the facet joints, the ligaments or the muscles of the back is mechanical type back pain. Disc degeneration is a common cause of mechanical pain. Although mechanical type pain usual starts near the lower spine it may spread to include the buttock and thigh areas. Mechanical type pain will rarely spread below the knee.
Bulging Disc Information
When a disc is bulging this is most not likely where the pain is being felt. To understand this lets look more closely at what a bulging disc is. The disc is a unit that is made up of a tough fibrous material (anulus fibrosus ) composing the outer layer. The inside of this disc is filled with a gel-like material called the nucleus pulposus.
Bulging Disc in Neck
In most cases, bulging discs occur in the lumbar region (lower back). When the disc bulges through a crevice in the spine, it is as a result of shifting out of its normal radius and as stated above, is most often due to age as it most often occurs gradually over time. The spine is supported by nerves, muscles, tendons and ligaments.
Bulging Disc Cause
A bulging disc is a condition related to the spine, most often in the lumbar region (lower back) and occurs when a disc bulges through a crevice in the spine. Discs are soft, circular, gelatinous (jellylike) material that cushions the vertebrae of the spine. A bulging disc occurs when the disc shifts out of its normal radius.