Sunday, April 27, 2008

Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease




This is a disease where there is pain in a persons lower back. This is usually due to an injury where a person may turn their lower half around the lumbar area and hurt it. This also can come from use over time.




The symptoms are usually just pain in the lower back. The pain is usually worse when doing something specific like bending or sitting a certain way. It says that over time it will get better because the disc can no longer inflame surrounding structures and will actually stabalize and no longer move.




This can be helped with medication for the pain and inflammation. Also the person can go through physical therapy and if these do not work then surgery can be looked into but it is treated first without surgery.






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