Details on how to get your Herniated Disc treated

It is important that any treatment
involving the backbone is done with as much the care as it is done
to your brain, for the both of them are interconnected and are a
single unit. Most people look at the backbone as a separate and
independent entity but it is not.

The back bone is an extension of the brain and it is
something that the brain will be unable to do without if it were to
stop getting support from it. The backbone is made up of 26 bones A
herniated disk is a disk that slips out of place or ruptures. If it
presses on a nerve, it can cause back pain or sciatica.

The spinal bones are separated by disks. These disks cushion
the spinal column and put space between your vertebrae. The disks
allow movement between the vertebrae, which lets you bend and
reach.

Nerve roots are large nerves that branch out from the spinal
cord and leave your spinal column between each vertebra. There are
a lot of things that address the backbone pain and the bones that
are at the lower end of the spinal cord, that always get sensitized
at the first instance especially when an individual is worried or
not in a comfortable thinking pattern and is worried for longer
periods of time.

This is not something he or she need be terribly worried with
but has to take care anyway.
Recently a blog by Mediline Plus  highlighted this issue
in great detail.
It mainly dealt with Herniated disk

A herniated (slipped) disk occurs
when all or part of a disk in the spine is forced through a
weakened part of the disk. This may place pressure on nearby
nerves.
•    Acute low back pain
•    Chronic low back pain
•    Sciatica
•    Back pain that spreads to the
buttocks and legs, when the herniated disk is in your lower back
•    Neck pain that spreads to the
shoulders and upper arms, when the herniated disk is in your upper
back
•    Tingling or numbness
•    Muscle spasms or weakness

The whole article can be read here

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000442.htm

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