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back pain is no joke especially when it involves bulging and herniated discs as well as that associated nerve pain that people often refer to as sciatica so in today's video we're going to take a look at actual discs on the cadavers in the lab discuss what's actually going on with bulging and herniated discs and again talk about that collateral damage and symptoms when those nerves get involved so let's do this [Music] so first let's talk about what a disc actually is discs are technically called intervertebral discs and that's because they're found in between the bones that make up the spine or the vertebral column and we refer to these bones as vertebrae or vertebra for singular now the majority of the vertebrae have what's called a vertebral body and this is the largest component of each vertebra and it's kind of this block-like mass of bone and it's where the weight or the forces are distributed throughout the spine and so we plot those discs in between the vertebral bodies of the