This is Spinal Tap (and we're way off-topic)
Discectomy and Laminectomy, L4/L5 and L5/S1 on 9/11/1985 at the Sheba Medical Center, Tel-HaShomer Army Base, Israel. Not service-connected; at least, not to my US Army (Infantry) service. This is what happens from humping 45lb 105mm towed-howitzer rounds, in the Israeli Defense Forces (Artillery).
Pretty-much asymptomatic for all those years, other than when I'd gain way too much weight, or do something torsional with my torso...
Then a 20-year-old in his parents' SUV rear-ended me at the end of this past March. Six new herniated discs: C3/C4, C4/C5, C5/C6, C6/C7, and L2/L3, L3/L4. It only hurts when I turn that torso of mine, like to wipe my butt, or back out of a parking space... ya know what I mean? Oh, and after driving my car for ten minutes, my fingers get all numb and tingly. It could be worse: I could be married, or have a girlfriend... or a job.
The Workers' Compensation orthopedic surgeon wants to do "endoscopic surgery" on my cervical vertebrae. I'm thinking "Not". When they did my lumbar surgery in 1985, they went-in through the back, and it took me a month in-hospital, followed by two more months at home, before I could go back to work.
I'll take the Personal Injury and Workers' Compensation settlements, and go on to SSDI. The only sharp instrument that will be taken to my body is a straight razor, to my face-and-neck. No Gillette "Fusion", and no spinal fusion, either.
The kid didn't see me, in my 1968 Dodge Neon, even though it was a sunny morning, and the car's painted Electric Blue. He was only going 75mph on the highway, less than 1/2-mile from a toll plaza. His third accident.
I hope someone gives him a straight razor... let's see if maybe then he'll learn to pay attention to what he's doing.