I had the same problem that you have & I made the mistake of having surgery on it. I advise people not to go through the surgery because it made me a lot worse than I was before the surgery.
There's a slit in the back of the ring that holds the vertebral disk.
A bulging disk on the left side.
Disc dessication is loss of water content of disc that occurs as a normal part of the aging process, but also occur with pathologic degeneration of discs. This leads to loss of the discs height and makes it a less effective "cushion" between the bones, since it also more stiff. A bulging annulus means the edge of the disc adjacent to the spine (usually) has "bulged" posteriorly and may dent or impinge upon the spinal sac, the nerve roots, or the spinal cord. An annular fissure is a crack or tear or the disc annulus (the outer coating of the disc, as opposed to the center part (nucleus)
The ones in the bulge or halo are older star, the ones in the disk are younger.
There's a bulge pushing through the ring holding the vertebral disk between L4 and L5. The bulge is narrowing the opening for the spinal cord somewhat, and is also touching both sides of the nerves coming off the spinal cord at L5.
it basically means that there is a small herniation (or bulging out) of one of the disks in your spine. L4-L5 is the position of the disk in your spine, and refers to Lumbar spine disk 4 and 5, aka it is to do with your lower spine. it can cause pain, or numbness and tingling in you lower legs in SOME cases..
First of all, there are a great number of theories as to what should be called a "bulge". Before MRI, physicians could see an herniated disk with a special x-ray study called a myelogram, in which dye is injected. When MRI came about, all kinds of soft tissues were seen for the first time. Radiologists started describing disk bulges, something that had not ever been discussed before. Different radiologists will differ in what they all a bulge. A definitive article in the New England Journal of Medicine established, many years ago, that a disk "bulge" should be considered to be a normal finding. The healthy disk is elastic. If it were not, our spines would be rigid. In order to allow the bones of the spine, the vertebral bodies, to permit us to bend forward and backwards, the disk must give, bulge and stretch. If one bends forward, it must bulge in the front and straighten in the back. In the standing position, the weight of the body might cause circumferential bulging. In a large percentage of the population, the disk will have some degree of bulge, normally, even when lying flat, as on the MRI table. A disk bulge should not be confused with an herniation. A disk bulge should not be treated. Unfortunately, there are practitioners who will make a big thing of this normal MRI finding, and try to convince their patients that the cause of pain has been found and that the bulge needs to be treated. But, since a disk bulge is a normal finding, there is no need to be concerned at to whether or not it will return to its normal place. It is in its normal place already.
An ANNULAR Eclipse only occurs at a NEW MOON. An annular eclipse is a 'ring' of sunlight around the Black Lunar Disc.
It looks more like a gigantic disk, with a bulge in the middle.
Fairly rare MRI term associated with spondylolisthesis at the L5/S1 level... The disk is dragged forward by the spinal slippage and on MRI appears to be herniated (which it isn't)...
The Moon's distance from the Earth can vary. This is because the Moon orbits the Earth in an ellipsoid manner, with the Earth at one of the foci. On this ellipsoid the Moon can be nearer to, or further away from the Earth. When all objects are further away from the observer, they appear to be smaller. Hence fir an annular eclipse the Moon is further away, therefore it appears smaller and allows a 'ring' of solar light around the black lunar disc. When the Moon is nearer the Earth you have a Total Solar Eclipse, where at best you only see the corona. NB the word 'foci' is the plural of the noun 'focus'. 'Focuses' is the verb. An ellipse has two foci. The Earth being at one of the foci, the other being a 'blind' foci. The word 'foci' is pronounced as 'foe-s-eye'. the 'c' is soft and pronounced like an 's'.
First of all, I wouldn't have surgery for a disk bulge unless I were in severe pain for a long time and other therapeutic options (chiropractic, physiotherapy, etc) have not worked, or, if there were severe neurological symptoms that were either not improving with therapy or were getting worse. If all these things were the case, then there are a few options for surgery, dependent on the surgeon, the disk, the patients wishes, the country/region, etc. Some possibilities are: 1) remove the extrudate (material exiting the disk if it were a true herniation), or shave off some off the bulge with microsurgery 2) remove the disk and fuse the C6 and C7 vertebrae together forever 3) remove the disk and replace it with an artificial disk