After being thrown down a flight of stairs at the hands of Wade Barrett on last week’s edition of WWE SmackDown, which in storyline resulted in Randy Orton being out for a number of weeks, “The Apex Predator” took to his Twitter account to comment on the matter.

“I’m getting alot of q’s bout my back. What happened is I herniated a disc (leaked disc fluid) between my L4-L5 in my lower back. Had some strength loss in my left lower leg. Time off is to let the inflammation go down, and try and strengthen the muscles int lower back. The Barrett barrage should have picked a steeper flight of stairs.”

Orton is currently booked to appear on the January 16th edition of WWE Monday Night RAW and at the January 17th WWE SmackDown tapings, as well as the 2012 WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view scheduled to take place in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri.