MRI RESULTS....What does this mean?

[CALLA]

THANK YOU MARK!!! For your interest in my questions.

Hopefully, I won't DRIVE you TOO crazy. I just can't understand why I am having so much discomfort lately. This is a WSIB injury, they have stopped my benefits, explaining to me that my pain is of a "subjective" matter, and that I do not have anything to show that I have any form of a disability?? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!!!!???

My doctor will not let me return to work!! Ugh!!!.......WHAT A MESS!!!

So, I have yet another question;

there is a diffuse posterior disc bulge with a superimposed posterocentral focal disc protrusion.

OK!!! What is the difference between a posterior disc bulge and a superimposed posterocentral focal disc protrusion??

I think I am REALLY EXTREMELY CONFUSED!!!!!

This is ALL a new language to me...Thankfully I found this site, hopefully I will be able to find peole to explain it too me more clearly..

Thank you agan Mark, really appreciate it!!

Calla

[mmglobal]

A bulge is a bulge in the annulus and ligament, much like a bump on a rubber ball that has been weakned... it's still intact, but compromised, so there is a bump.

A protrusion is where the disc annulus (like the outside of a jelly donut or the rubber exterior of a tire) is torn all the way through and some disc nucleus material (jelly of the donut), is extruded through the annulus and possibly the ligament too.

Mark