Could Your Slipped Disc Not Be the Source of Back Pain?
A typical occurrence with spine discomfort is that people who suffer from it can usually place a finger or point to where the pain is felt the worst. While this may point to where, in general, the tissues and nerves are excited more than usual, it is frequent that no real tissue damage is seen.
Thus, are the nerves simply too sensitized or is there something that chiropractors are missing when examining pain in the back? Pain from a sore back can be felt far from the estimated source of the damage, even all the way down to the legs.
Between 1 and 3 percent of the population shows evidence of bulging discs, yet this does not automatically lead to pain. In fact, there are just as many people with a bulging disc who do not have back discomfort as there are people who do suffer from pain. This begs the question, is having a bulging disc in the spinal column necessary at all for lower back pain, or is something else at work?