Hamstring stretching is almost always important for patients with lower back pain. Investing in a few hour-long sessions with a physical therapist or certified athletic trainer knowledgeable about low back pain can provide adequate guidance and ideas for back exercises that can be done with and without exercise equipment.
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Advances in orthopedics April Page last updated: 13 October Topic last reviewed: 17 October What is DDD? Cause of Spinal Disk Deterioration Degeneration of the spinal discs can happen for a variety of reasons. Spinal Lumbar Degeneration This spinal degeneration disease occurs slowly and gradually but often are felt first in the lumbar spine region because they are exposed to heavier loads more often than the discs in the neck cervical spine region.
Surrounding nerves and joints are frequently inflamed due to stress and begin rapidly age. Despite the slight loss of disc height, some patients experience very little pain or overall discomfort.
Stage 2 Degenerative Disc Disease occurs once the condition worsens, disc space narrows, and bone spurs bone deformations start to appear. The changes in a patients posture become more apparent, and disc desiccation and narrowing have begun. Stage two patients often report frequent discomfort and pain. Stage 3 of Degenerative Disc Disease is when the condition has reached advanced stages with multilevel disc desiccation, apparent changes in posture, disc thinning, damage to surrounding nerves, bone spurs, and formation of scar tissue due to constant inflammation.
For most patients, this stage results in significant deterioration of the physical condition, chronic pain resulting in additional mental stress. Stage 4 of Degenerative Disc Disease is the most severe form of subluxation degeneration or diffuse disc bulges and sometimes not treatable even with stem cells. At this late stage, the damage to the spine can be severe with virtually no disc height bone on bone , reduction in flexibility, chronic back pain, damage to the root nerves, a fusion of bones resulting in additional scar tissue and minimal abilities.
Herniated Spinal Discs A herniated disc is also known as a bulged, slipped or ruptured disc. Diagnosing DDD Spinal Stenosis To diagnose DDD and cervical degenerative disc disease, an orthopedic doctor examines the patient medical history and performs a physical examination. Over long term use, these medications can cause serious side effects or be addictive so they must be used with extreme caution and sporadically as needed Ice and Heat compression can be used to improve blood circulation, which can help to reduce tension, muscle spasms and improve mobility Massage therapy can help to reduce muscle spams and stress in the low lumbar region.
Thai massages are often used to reduce inflammation and pressure on the spine which can help to reduce pain Epidural steroid injections can be administered to reduce pain signals and inflammation.
Operations to treat DDD can include: Lumbar Spinal Fusion Surgery, which is considered the standard surgical option for the treatment of lumbar degenerative disc disease. While it is possible to treat the condition by addressing the cause, this means treating and correcting, as much as possible, the misalignment of the spine. There is a big distinction between treating a condition and treating the cause of that condition, and what it boils down to is whether or not the main focus of treatment is addressing the symptoms of the condition, or its underlying cause.
When it comes to treating degenerative disc disease, to better understand the mechanics of the condition, I like to use the analogy of a misaligned car. The misalignment is the underlying cause of the degeneration that a disc is experiencing. So the way to potentially reverse the effects of degenerative disc disease as much as possible is to address the underlying cause: weight-bearing issues due to misalignment.
With degenerative disc disease, the treatment approach is often to treat the symptoms of the condition because it is easier and less invasive. Treating degenerative disc disease symptoms would include medications, surgery, and injections into the discs. These help address the number-one reason most patients seek medical help: pain. What it takes is removing that asymmetrical load off those discs as much as possible and for as long as possible, which means the work continues after the curvature is reduced to sustain those results.
If we are able to reduce the scoliosis and correct the misalignment enough, the discs do have the ability to recover and regenerate somewhat; however, as the effects of disc degeneration are cumulative, so too is the process of working to correct them. Regeneration of the discs can be possible if the condition is caught early on before a lot of progression has taken place, but it takes long periods of time and treatment of the underlying cause.
There is no quick fix or process that can simply restore the function of the spinal discs that has been lost over time. The discs are composed of a hard tough outer layer while the inside is soft and gel-like. The discs that cushion the vertebrae serve three primary functions :. A person with degenerative disc disease can experience varying degrees of back, neck, arm, hip, leg or sciatica pain.
Degenerative disc disease is a condition caused by a damaged vertebral disc. When a vertebral disc is damaged, the cushioning between the vertebrae is compromised, causing those adjacent vertebrae to rub together. The compromised area of the spine also has less shock absorption, placing more force on the spine. As the discs have few nerve endings and no blood supply, they cannot repair themselves, which is why it can develop into a chronic condition.
The development of degenerative disc disease is not a quick process. Just as degenerative forces are cumulative, so is the concept by which the condition can be slowed down and potentially reversed: piezoelectricity. Piezoelectricity is the electric charge that builds up in crystal materials, such as bone, as a result of mechanical stress in the form of latent heat and pressure. This relates to the spine as external forces can change its piezoelectricity.
When an area of the spine is under stress, its charge becomes negative. In order to compensate, positive calcium ions are attracted, based on the laws of opposites attracting. If a spine is weakened due to degenerative changes, the body tries to compensate with an influx of calcium ions to make it stronger.
As a chiropractor, I can decrease the stress on the affected joints of the spine; by doing this, the polarity can be reversed. As likes repel, negative becomes positive. As the stress on the joints of the affected area is decreased, the body starts to reject the calcium ions that were increased in an attempt to strengthen it.
Just as degenerative effects are cumulative and take their toll over time, reversing the condition is lengthy and can take anywhere between three and five years. When it comes to scoliosis, there are a lot of uneven forces at work.
In younger people, degenerative disc disease is uncommon, unless some type of trauma or abnormal stress comes into play. Young people with scoliosis do, however, deal with the abnormal stress that a spinal curvature causes and that can cause disc problems.
If you picture a spine as building blocks stacked on top of one another with a marshmallow separating each vertebrae, you can see how that stack becoming misaligned can push those marshmallows out on one side. The marshmallows are the discs, and as a curvature progresses, disc compression occurs, which is considered a type of disc degeneration.
If you add to that number additional cases from around the world, plus those that are undiagnosed, it becomes clear how common a deformity scoliosis is.
When we think of unequal forces, we need to keep the basic laws of physics in mind: action and reaction. As a spinal curvature develops and progresses, the main visible symptom can be described as a general asymmetry of the body.
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