The main symptom of lumbar disc disease is lower back pain and sciatica. Lumbar is the body movement junction who loads very huge pressure and tortional force, so lumbar disc is easy to get degenerated and herniated when get some external forces such as little injury or cold moist. Almost 1/2 of lumbar herniated disc patients get the symptom that back pain comes earlier than legs pain; 1/3 get the symptom concerned both; some also get the symptom legs pain earlier. The patients who get earlier time back pain will be several days in short and several years in long, and the symptom position is below the lower back and rumpbone and deep and dull. The dull pain is extensive but inaccurate and will be deteriorated when doing activities and relieved when resting.

About 98% lumbar herniated disc patients will suffer legs pain symptom but the pain position is different according to the herniated position. 95% patients get the herniated disc in L4-L5 or L5-S1, so the symptom will be one leg and two legs radioactive pain along with the sciatica which from buttcocks to back thigh to outer crus then to feet or toes among most patients and some from crus to feet. The pain extension is related to the interface between nerve root and herniated lumbar disc. Some patients will deteriorate the legs pain cause of sneezing, couching and increasing abdominal pressure. At the early stage of lumbar disc the patient will feel legs pain and to the serious and long history patient whose nerve root was oppressed deeply he will feel legs numbness and malfunction. To the lumbar disc patients whose lumbar disc herniated in the upper lumbar, the symptom positions are underbelly and groin.

If the lumbar disc herniated too much form disc centre, the patient will be abnormal or incontinence in relieves himself, saddle area numbness, even foot drop. Some lumbar disc disease patients will put up in legs cold as for the limitation on low back sympathetic nerve; some will put up in leg or legs edema. The typical symptoms of lumbar disc disease are including back muscle spasm, lumbar spine curvature, limitation on lumbar movement (mainly anteflexion), lumber's side face pain caused by pressure, and limitations on some physical tests. Do not feel nervous when you thought to be get lumbar disc disease from the symptoms because the patients always could receive the satisfied result after taking correct curative treatment as soon as done the diagnosis.

Further more, lumbar herniated disc incidence of upper lumbar is very rarely, and the symptom is visible as back and thigh pain. If the herniation located in the centre vertebral canal, the patient will feel sharp pain on perineum, malfunction on bladder, sexual malfunction or weakness on legs movement that is called Sciatica syndrome. When getting sciatica syndrome, the patient should go to see the doctor as soon as possible.