Why Do Discs Bulge and Rupture?
Those intervertebral discs are the villains. What are they? Between your vertebrae are twenty-three discs that serve, as cushions to let your spine do the work it must do. These discs are made up of a wet, spongy inner core and a stiff, sturdier outer shell that keeps the disc intact. After a person is twenty years old, these discs begin to wear in relation to the amount of pressure and movement the spine is subjected to. Many people have sciatic pain in their late twenties. It becomes more prevalent in people from thirty to fifty years of age. Thirty-eight is the average age for patients having lumbar disc surgery. While age often is a factor, that isn’t the cause of sciatica. There are a complex group of other factors that have a bearing. These include work that requires repetitive lifting, constant exposure to vibrations like long rides on a motorcycle or driving a car or truck for long periods of time. Dr. John Frymoyer, in an article in The New England Journal of Medicine, said th
