{"id":2694,"date":"2016-09-02T06:14:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T06:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.s3c.com.au\/?page_id=2694"},"modified":"2021-06-30T03:28:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T03:28:50","slug":"lumbar-disc-herniation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.s3c.com.au\/education-centre\/conditions\/lower-back\/lumbar-disc-herniation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumbar disc herniation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lumbar disc herniation<\/h1>\n

A lumbar disc herniation may be called a lumbar disc protrusion, lumbar disc extrusion, lumbar disc prolapse, lumbar disc rupture, a slipped low back disc or a low back disc bulge. Technically call these things just fall under the umbrella of disc herniation, except for disc bulge. Put simply, a disc herniation occurs when the material from the centre of the disc (nucleus pulposus) escapes through tears in the outer part of the disc and then pokes out or makes the outer fibres bulge out to some degree. <\/p>\n

This next part is important. Lumbar disc herniation in themselves are not painful. That is, we can have asymptomatic low back disc herniation. However the little tears that allow for a disc herniation are painful and these are called annular tears. The other thing that makes a disc herniation painful is if it pokes out and protrudes into some nervous tissue such as the spine or the spinal nerve roots. This can give us back pain or pain all the way down the buttock, legs and into the feet. This is typically called sciatica (lumbar radiculopathy).<\/p>\n

The following are a little summary of the types of lumbar disc herniation:<\/p>\n