Hello and welcome to another edition of Health Matters.

My name is Dr. Michael Chilemi, and today what we're going to talk about is something that

affects millions of millions of people every single day.

So we're going to talk about herniated discs. We're going to talk about the

symptoms, the causes, the diagnosis, and the treatment options. So in this episode,

herniated discs will be discussed at detail. We will cover how it affects patients, people's lives. We're going to cover all

the different types of disc injuries, including disc bulges, disc protrusions, disc sequestrons,

disc disease. We're going to talk about a lot of different things about disc conditions

and what happened, what do we do, and how do we do it? So first things first, we got to say, what is a disc? What does a herniated disc mean?

What is the definition? So herniated disc is also known as a slip disc or a ruptured disc.

This occurs when the inner cells of the disc itself, which is gel-like

material, we call that the nucleus of the spinal discs leaks out through a tear, the outer layer. The outer layer is called

the anelosis fibrosis. Let's take a quick look real quick. So real quick, so this outer layer

here is the annulus fibrosis and inside it, which this one you can't see,

but inside the middle of it, there is a circle. That circle is gel-like material and that's the nucleus proposis.

Let's explain the anatomy of an interventable disc.

So the inner vertebral discs acts as a cushion between both vertebrates, just as you see here.

It acts as a cushion in between the vertebrates.

So the outer layer is very tough, and that's the annulus fibrosis again, and the inner layer is very soft, jelly-like material that's called a nucleus proposis.

So what are all these fancy words?

Let's break down the anatomy of the disc structure.

So the annulus fibrosis is the outer ring of the inner vertebral disc.

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