Figure 6. Provocation discography for a 54 years old woman, who had sufferedfrom low back pain (LBP) for more than 2 years.

The results shows the ruptured intervertebral disc (L5-S1), leakage of the contrast medium, concordant pain (7 point on the numeric rating scale) was induced according to the VAS score. (A) is the frontal X-ray of the provocation discography. (B) indicates the lateral X-ray of the provocative discography.