Slipped Disk (Herniated Disc)
A potentially painful problem in which the hard outer coating of the disk is damaged, allowing the disk‘s jelly-like center to leak and cause irritation to adjacent nerves.
About Slipped Disks
The spine is made up of a chain of bones called the vertebrae. The front part of each of the vertebrae is called the vertebral body. Soft spinal disks are found between the vertebrae. The disks have a hard, multilayered casing and a gel-like center (nucleus pulposus). It is thanks to these disks that the spine is flexible and we are able to lean forward or to turn our upper body from side to side. They also absorb shocks that are transferred to the spine when we are running or jumping, for instance.
Having a slipped disk means that one of the spinal disks is bulging beyond the edges of the vertebral bodies above and below it. There are three types of slipped disk:
Prolapse: The disk is bulging out between the vertebrae, but its outermost layer is still intact… Read more about Slipped Disk