Magnate
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Queens, NY
Posts: 2,857
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Magnate
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Queens, NY
Posts: 2,857
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Well--
--it means the discs of spongy material between your lower lumbar vertebrae in those areas are bulging, but not greatly--they are not herniated (which is when the material in them actually comes out through a small hole or rupture, which would be more serious).
The fact that they are bulging but apparently not invading the foraminal spaces--the foramen are the openings in the vertebrae through which the nerves (often referred to as roots) that connect to the spinal cord pass--or invading the spinal canal space very much is a good thing; there is no obvious pressure on the nerve roots or cord itself.
The real question is--what are your symptoms? MRI and other imaging results need to be correlated to symptomology.
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