Causes and treatment for Degenerative Disc Disease

Degenrative disc disease as the name suggests is a general wear and tear of disc which leads to abnormal pain.it was generally seen in old age but owing to lifestyle changes youngsters can also be found to be suffering from this disease. Sudden injury ca also cause this pain. Classic symptoms of this includes- relief from pain while walking or running and experiencing shooting pain while sitting. It is also characterized by severe pain while bending, lifting and twisting. Treatment invovles- conservative therapy in the first stage, followed by one short surgical injection, surgery is tried only when first two fail. One thing would like to add here, surgery in this case offers very good result.

Exercises and that too specialised one can help in preventing and providing relief from this disease.