You’ve probably heard the terms bulging disc or herniated disc at some point, whether it involved you or someone you know. While those words can strike fear in a lot of people, it’s important to understand what they really mean, and remove the scary presumptions we have about them. Within the spine you have numerous structures, but the two I am focusing on are the vertebrae (the individual bones of the spine), and the discs (the cartilage ‘cushion’ in between each of those ve