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Your MRI report says that you have a herniated disc in your lumbar spine. Here is what you need to know and what your doctor should be telling you.

Anatomy of the Lumbar Spine. In a normal, healthy spine, the five lumbar vertebrae stack on top of one another in a centered alignment. While all vertebrae have approximately the same shape, ...

A single spinal injection was given to 154 patients in the ESI group of an observational study from the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT). They were compared with 453 patients who did ...

Although many patients undergo surgery for lumbar disc herniation, symptoms of disk herniation often improve with observation alone. These researchers conducted both a randomized trial of ...

Last month we discussed that the higher level (L1-L2, L2-L3 and L3-L4) lumbar disc herniations present significantly different than the more common lower level (L4-L5 and L5-S1) lumbar disc ...

In an award-winning study, researchers from India concluded that the endplate junction — rather than the anulus fibrosis — is the most common point of failure in patients with lumbar disc ...

Your doctor will diagnose a herniated disc with a physical exam and, sometimes, imaging tests. With treatment, most people recover. Treatments include rest, pain and anti-inflammatory medicines, ...