Great news Disc Herniations can resorb.

The body has amazing healing capabilities.  I have seen many people get better when they were told that they would need surgery.  It great to see the research showing the same thing I have seen over the years of treating patients.

“The existing evidence shows that the overall resorption incidence of lumbar disc herniation (LDH) was 70.39%, the resorption incidence of ruptured LDH is higher than that of contained LDH. The resorption process mainly occurred within 6 months of conservative treatment."

The possibility of Spontaneous regression was:"

• Bulging disc - 13.3%
• Protruded disc- 52.5%
• Extruded disc- 70.4%
• Sequestered disc- 93.9%

Extruded and sequestered discs were also significantly more likely to completely regress than smaller morphologies."

Rashed S, Vassiliou A, Starup-Hansen J, Tsang K. Systematic review and meta-analysis of predictive factors for spontaneous regression in lumbar disc herniation. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine. 2023 Jul 14;1(aop):1-8. Link

Zou T, Liu XY, Wang PC, Chen H, Wu PG, Feng XM, Sun HH. Incidence of spontaneous resorption of lumbar disc herniation: a meta-analysis. Clinical Spine Surgery. 2023 Jul 31:10-97. Link