What Is A Herniated Disk? #backpain

Dr. Richardson: So when you have a herniated disk, you have the bone again, the disk and bone and now you see this red part. This is the herniated disk that pushes on the nerve that causes symptoms that you hear in the community as sciatica, the pain goes down the back of the leg because it's compressing the sciatic nerve. So a herniated disk is like jelly out of a doughnut. Once the jelly comes out of the doughnut, it hits the nerve and sends the signals down the leg. As spinal surgeons, our goal and our aim is to remove this red part that's pressing on the nerve. So all we do is remove the red part to free up the nerve so nothing is pressing on the nerve and it looks like this again.

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