WHAT IS A SLIPPED DISK? WHAT IS A SLIPPED DISK?
As one of their primary tasks, spinal disks separate and cushion adjacent vertebrae from one another. Made of high- ly specialized tissues and averaging about one-half inch in thickness, disks normally function flawlessly for their owner’s lifetime. But sometimes a disk herniates or bulges and presses or pinches spinal nerves. This condition is commonly called slipped disk, bulging disk, blown disk, protruding disk, and the like, and is usually marked by pain, often excruciating pain.
