Back pain is what people call just about everything that hurts back there. But there are kinds of pain. The small joints (facets) can be sprained by just the right twist or by beer belly or pregnancy pressing the front of the pelvis down withlordosis resulting.

A tight spinal canal can squeeze things as can a narrowed foramen.

But discogenic pain is pain that is supposedly coming from the disc itself. How do you determine that?

Well the lecture is about to begin. Pull up a seat. Dr. Errico is about ready.