Schmorl's hernia is a disease in which the intervertebral disc protrudes not in a horizontal plane, but in a vertical one, and pushes through the vertebral body. Its bone structure is destroyed and pressed vertically - up or down, the cartilaginous tissue of cialis pills the resulting cavity. Pathology is often hereditary, develops mainly in adolescents and the elderly with degenerative processes in the structures of the spinal column.
This is basically a painless process, since the disc goes inside the vertebra and does not protrude beyond it, so the nerve endings, arteries and spinal cord are not affected. Painful symptoms appear with the development and increase of cartilage protrusion, as a result of which the intervertebral disc almost completely falls into the body of the overlying or underlying vertebra, the space between the vertebrae decreases, compression of the nerve roots and sometimes the blood vessels of the spinal column occurs.