A pain that radiates from the thigh to the foot, sometimes associated with tingling, loss of sensation or numbness ... Sciatica, which many have already had the bitter experience (especially 25-45 years), is often the expression of a deeper problem: lumbar disc herniation.
A sort of escape operated by an intervertebral disc, most often not very serious, but very painful.
Protective canal containing the spinal cord, nerve roots and cerebrospinal fluid, the spine is made up of a stack of vertebrae separated by gelatinous discs which act as shock absorbers.
Between each vertebra, nerve roots emerge which will continue their way in the body to innervate muscles and organs.
However, it happens that an intervertebral damping disc - more precisely its nucleus - leaves its fibrous envelope and protrudes into the space of the vertebral canal.
"When the disc nucleus comes out
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