Abstract
Disc hernias are usually the result of disc wear, especially in the exercise of heavy physical occupations, weight lifting, forced posture, overwork. The clinical case described is a 69-year-old patient, a journalist by profession. At the end of May, he went to the Mount Athos peninsula in Greece to visit and describe the Monasteries in Mount Athos. On 30th of May he made a long and difficult transition into the mountain with a heavy backpack. In the morning of the same day, he suffered sharp spontaneous motion pains. He hoped that the pain would subsist and he would continue the journey. The day after, the inflammatory process encompassed the left buttocks with numbness on the outer surface of the left thigh and lower leg with a very limited movement. The patient was very worried about his health and how he would be transported to the nearest hospital. He was transported on a stretcher to Bulgaria and on 06.06. 2016г. to the hospital MHALNP "St. Naum" in Sofia for research and treatment. The Computer tomography was performed on 07.06.2018. upon acceptance of the patient, the results from it were: Disorders of the intervertebral discs in the lumbar spine and the other parts of the spine with radiculopathy at the level L4-L5 - left-side foramen disk hernia with compression of the left L4 nerve root in intra- and extraforaminal disc herniation.This example shows that in case of problems with vertebrogenic etiology it should not be awaiting and the patient should take precautions in time to avoid complications.
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