Many people every year have to suffer with back pain. It is, in fact, the most common reason for sick days in the US. There are many reasons for people to have back pain from a simple strained muscle to one of the degenerative spine disorders. These back disorders can give the person who has them a lot of problems. Sometimes there are things that can be done for them, and for other disorders all that can happen is to manage the disorder.
One of the most common spine disorders is a herniated or bulging disc. In between each vertebra there is a cushioning disc. They pad the vertebra from one another, preventing them from rubbing together, and helping to provide the flexibility of the spine. When one herniates, that it protrudes out from in between the 2 vertebra. It looks like a jelly donut with the filling falling out of it. The most common places for this to happen are in the neck and in the lower back. A herniated disc can happen both because of trauma, but more often because of age.
Not only does it cause the person who has it to have a back ache, it can also cause nerves to be pinches, leading to numbness, tingling and pain down an arm or leg, depending on what part of the spine it is in. The most common treatments are rest and physical therapy. If the situation gets to be severe enough, causing the sufferer to have problems with their motor functions, or constant severe pain, surgery can happen to try to repair the discs, or replace them with artificial discs that function the same way. Herniated discs aren't the only degenerative spine disorders that a person can have.
A person can actually have more than one of the disorders. For example, a person could have spinal stenosis, which is the narrowing of the spinal channel so that it starts to impinge on the spinal column as well as a herniated disc. These are both common as a person ages, and both common in the rival and lumbar spine, or the neck and lower back.
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