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As you likely know, a herniated disc can cause pain and interrupt your daily activies. When you visit a spine specialist, he or she will ask you questions and perform some exams. This is to try to locate the source of the pain from the herniation and develop a treatment plan for you—a way to manage your disc herniation pain and other cervical and back symptoms and to help you recover overall.

Pain from a herniated disc is often the result of daily wear and tear on the spine. However, it may also be caused by an injury. Pain is sometimes the result of pinched nerves that are crowded by the leaking nucleus pulposus.

Symptoms of a herniated disc may include dull or sharp pain, muscle spasm or cramping, weakness, tingling, or referred pain.

A herniated disc most often occurs in the lumbar region (low back). This is because the lumbar spine carries most of the body’s weight. Sometimes the herniation can press on a nerve, causing pain that spreads or radiates to other parts of the body. The amount of pain associated with a disc rupture often depends upon the amount of material that breaks through the annulus fibrosus and whether it compresses a nerve.

A slipped disc can happen anywhere in the spine, and surprisingly, a slipped disc does not actually slip. Instead, the disc, which is located between the bones of the spine (vertebrae), splits or ruptures. When this happens, the inner gel-like substance (nucleus pulposus) leaks out.