Back Pain - What You Need to Know

As you have this inner jell part, the jelly starts leaking out and starts breaking through the annular a next part of the disc. And so a herneation can be small enough where it just breaks through the next layer of the disk. There's nerve endings in this little annular part of theDisc, and that's where you get pain. Forty per cent of all back pain is discogenic,. That's what they call it. All this pain is occurring within the disk itself. Normally it should heal, but sometimes it doesn't heal.

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