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Degenerative Discs and Herniated Discs

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Channel: Yoga Lifestyle with Melissa · 2015 · Howto & Style

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Degenerative Disc Disease happens when the discs in your spine start to dry out and lose their mobility and shock absorption. When this happens, the inner portion of your discs shrink, providing less cushion between the boney vertebral processes of your spine and the outer part of your disc can suffer from small tears. The result is pain. 

Herniated Discs, also called slipped discs or bulging discs happen when the inner material of your disc, the soft nucleus, leaks out of your disc and touches the nerve route. This nucleus is highly inflammatory and so the contact with nerve causes pain. Any numbness, tingling, weakness travels along the path of the nerve, such as the sciatic nerve and goes down the back of the leg, but a disc that herniates in your cervical spine can cause pain that radiates down your arm. 

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