The following are the most important diseases or complications that can be caused by discopathy (disc damage) as well:
Brain – Nervous System (F00-F99; G00-G99).
- Cervicobrachial syndrome (synonym: shoulder-arm syndrome) – pain in the neck, shoulder girdle, and upper extremities. The cause is often the compression or irritation of spinal nerves (spinal cord nerves) of the cervical spine; most common causes are myofascial complaints (pain in the musculoskeletal system, which do not originate from joints, periosteum, muscle diseases or other neurological diseases), for example, due to myogelosis (muscle hardening) or muscle imbalance of the cervical spine.
- Sciatica syndrome (lumboischialgia) – root irritation syndrome in which there is pain in the lumbar spine and in the supply area of the ischiadic nerve.
- Cauda syndrome (cauda equina syndrome) – it is a cross-sectional syndrome at the level of the cauda equina (anatomical structure located inside the spine in a sac of hard meninges (dura mater) and the arachnoid mater adjacent to it inside); this leads to damage to the nerve fibers below the conus medullaris (name for the conical, caudal end of the spinal cord), which is accompanied by flaccid paresis (paralysis) of the legs, often with urinary bladder and rectal dysfunction.
- Chronic pain
- Restriction of the ability to move
- Paresis (paralysis)
- Sensory disturbances
Genitourinary system (kidneys, urinary tract – sex organs) (N00-N99)
- Priapism – erection lasting > 4 h without sexual stimulation; 95% of cases are ischemic or low-flow priapism (LFP), which is very painful; LFP can lead to irreversible erectile dysfunction after only 4 h; therapy: blood aspiration and possibly intracavernosal (i.c.) sympathomimetic injection; “high-flow” priapism (HFP) does not require immediate intervention
