How You Get Lumbar Disc Protrusion

As I had to find out myself, a lumbar disc protrusion is not a funny thing to have. On this post I'd like to distract from the painful part and focus on how a lumbar protrusion develops.

The two most common reasons for a disc to protrude or herniate are trauma and muscle imbalances. Muscle imbalances lead to what are called "postural dysfunctions." This images show an example of such a dysfunction: the left person has a normal posture, while the person on the right has an imbalanced one:
These dysfunctions put high pressure on a disc that will cause increased wear and tear over time. Eventually, the weak spot will give way and make contact with the nerve, bringing you pain.
If it is not caused by trauma, a lumbar disc protrusion does not happen overnight. You may be come symptomatic very quickly, but it takes a long time for conditions to be right for the nerve to be put under enough pressure to cause pain.

Go to FixMyDiscDisease.info to read more about muscle imbalances and their causes.

Exercises for Herniated Discs in the Lower Back

Hi, today I want to talk about useful exercises for herniated discs in the lower back that can take some of the lower back pain away, at least temporary.

As you know I've been diagnosed with a disc protrusion in the lower back (to be more exact: the diagnose said "l5 s1 disc protrusion"), which of course upset me a lot at first... Anyway, now I'm glad because it helped me to finally understand the other queer things going on in my back.

Most herniating or protruding discs put pressure on the nerves, which causes lower back pain (of different degrees). Often, the whole situation becomes even worse when the pain starts to radiate and the next you know you have a nasty sciatica. If you don't look after it, your already atrocious condition can become disastrous.

Here are some Exercises that might help:

• Balance Exercises - They activate the muscles around the affected disc and thus release the loading it gets.
• Stretching Exercises - This kind of exercise relaxes the involved muscles and improves your flexibility.
• Strengthening Exercises - By building strong muscles in the back and particularly in your concerned area, you work towards getting pressure off of the injured spinal disc.
• Spinal Extension Exercises - Lay down on your stomach and elbows (or on your hands with straightened arms if you can) for 2 minutes and then relax. This causes the lower back to build a curve which makes the disc move away from the nerves. This is also known a the McKenzie exercise.
• Bouncing Exercises - This typically up and down movements help getting new oxygen and nutrition into the discs.

Also, use conventional treatment options for a bulging disc to treat the worst pain right away and then find out what you can do about your specific and unique situation.

For more information and the latest research on proven herniating or protruding disc treatment methods go to FixMyDisc.Disease.info.

How to Fix Bulging Discs - Fix Muscle Imbalances

In this post I'd like to talk about how to fix bulging discs (or a herniated disc, a disc protrusion, a slipped disc or whatever you might want to call it).


As I said in my last post, turned out that all these things in my sick back (the scoliosis, the shortened back muscle and the stiff thoracic spine) are somehow related to each other! And I finally really understood what this pain is all about:

I discovered that they all have the same root cause, which is a muscle imbalance. The only way I can finally get rid of this pain is by taking care of that (after using a combination of treatment options for a bulging disc and doing herniated disc exercises to get some immediate pain relief).

Thank god I found the info on FixMyDiscDisease.info about muscle imbalances and how they ruin the backs of innocent people. Take a look at this graph that explains how a muscle imbalance is the main root cause of practically every kind of back pain:
















Apparently

1. at first we have a muscle imbalance (which we usually don't know we have) which leads to
2. some kind of dysfunction in our back (like my scoliosis, could also be a crooked pelvis, a forward neck and whatnot) which then leads to
3. a sick disc (like an l5 s1 disc protrusion, a herniated disc l5 and such)

...which then causes the back pain.

Disc Protrusion - Are You Kidding me?

About two months ago an orthopedist diagnosed me with a disc protrusion. And you know what I thought? I thought: what the heck is a disc protrusion? Then I went searching the internet for every information I could get on disc protrusions.

After a while I thought my head was going to explode from all the info you can get on this stuff. And guess what, I also found out about herniating and bulging discs, disc desiccation, pinched and trapped nerves and all kinds of crazy stuff like that.

Anyway, so in order to keep my head from exploding (and make something meaningful out of my newly acquired knowledge) I decided to start acting like a pro, talk about it, make this blog and write some other stuff and see what happens. So here I am, this is my very first post and I can't wait to see what happens...

For the sake of completeness, I should mention that this was orthopedist number 4 I went to within the last two years and a half. Of course I didn't tell him what the other three guys have found out before him, hehe. That was a lesson I had learned some time before: never tell your doctor what the other doctors found out! I didn't even tell him that I had consulted others before.

Now, I wouldn't say that the other doctors were wrong. I actually think that they were all right, I just think that if I would have told him (the last one), that he would have focused on the same things the others said and maybe he wouldn't have found the disc protrusion.

Now let me summarize what I think:

I think that all these things in my sick back (the scoliosis, the shortened back muscle and the stiff thoracic spine) are somehow related to each other! And I finally really understood what this pain is all about. I discovered that they all have the same root cause, which is a muscle imbalace in my back. The only way I can finally get rid of this pain is by taking care of that.

I'll talk about that in my next post...

Here are some useful links about the different types of disc protrusion:

Foraminal Disc Protrusion
Central Disc Protrusion
Focal Disc Protrusion
Broad Based Disc Protrusion
Posterior Disc Protrusion
What is a Disc Protrusion