hi rider, my point regarding surgery was that, as the bones gets osteoporotic by this age, and doing such surgeries has some sort of risk of sensation loss, but always natural things are always the best, you don't get that thing after surgery what you have it before, i recommend you to get PT service who are good at relieving disc compression, see such buldges are can be easily tackled with proper traction, and yeah i told you about decompression therapy, you can know about it by searching in youtube, you will find the video there, its also like the traction only, but its just the advanced form of it, see spinal surgeries can now be easily avoided. and we ppl are doing that job, don't worry, and yeah see we prescribe the spinal flexors and spinal extensors exercise after the patient gets rid of pain, in order to built up the strength in surrounding muscles to prevent its reoccurance
fell free to ask any question, bye