The main symptoms are lumbago and radiating pain in the lower limb. Majorities of the patients have pain in a lower limb in one side, and only a few patients with central type of a bigger protrusion have pain in the lower limbs of two sides. The pain is aggravated by cough, sneezing and a forceful movement of bowel and alleviated by bed rest. The patients with a long course may have numbness of the lower limb. The patients with compression of cauda equina nerve due to central protrusion of pulpiform nucleus may sometimes have numbness and stabbing pain in the perineum, problem of urination and defecation, or incomplete paralysis of the limbs. Continue to read
Chinese medicine Treatment for
Cervical Spondylosis.
