Patients with low back pain think they have a herniated disc, and patients who see their imaging reports think they have a herniated disc. In fact, the imaging report is often much broader than the clinician’s choice of treatment, all see say disc bulging, herniation, free phantom then do not be nervous. It is important to look not only at the report card, but more importantly at the CT and MRI films. First of all ask the clinician who did this procedure to show it to yourself, and secondly look at it yourself as well. Thirdly experience for yourself if you have a herniated disc. First of all, look at a normal MRI film, you can see that the center of the normal disc shows a high signal, the spinal canal can be seen in many dots of black spots, the upper articular process and the disc and the distance between the disc is also very large. It is also called normal disc (intervertebral disc) and yellow (ligamentum flavum) space. Abnormal disc level NMR The disc can be seen to show a low signal, that is, a darker signal, the nerves of the spinal canal are compressed, and you can’t see many small black dots. The disc yellow space has disappeared. Sagittal: blue arrows show normal discs (although the disc signal is low, it has no clinical significance); red arrows show herniated or prolapsed discs; black arrows are often reported as bulging discs, which do not require treatment. Finally, how to determine whether a disc is herniated No matter in any position, lying down, sitting, standing, walking, after special positions, etc., if you feel radiating pain in one side of the lower extremity (from the lumbar vertebrae to the lateral side of the calf at one time), and feel other sensations, such as bloating, numbness, and weakness, etc., you can consider that it’s a herniated disc. If it is indeed a herniated disc, there are better clinical treatments to alleviate the clinical symptoms. If there is no herniated disc, don’t be alarmed, and the clinical symptoms can be relieved with conservative treatments such as bed rest.