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Degenerative Disc Disease SymptomsDegenerative Disc Disease Symptoms or Not
When a person seeks a diagnosis for dorsopathy, imaging studies are often performed. The back pain industry views symptoms as mostly stemming from some structural abnormality, such as a disc or bone irregularity. This is ironic, since research has definitely shown almost no correlation between spinal abnormalities and painful conditions. The majority of people have something irregular in their spines, but might not have any pain. Other people have severe pain, but completely or near normal spinal anatomies… When pain is present, doctors typically look for some structural reason to explain it. Despite the evidence that most chronic pain is sourced from ischemia enacted by a psychosomatic repression syndrome, doctors generally ignore this fact and still diagnose DDD related pain everyday. DDD is a perfect scapegoat on which to blame symptoms, since it is found in almost every patient and is truly an “old standby” when no other apparent (anatomical) causation exists. Treatment for Degenerative Disc Disease SymptomsTreatment for DDD is mostly symptomatic in nature and follows the accepted norms for virtually any back pain condition. Physical therapy, drugs and possibly chiropractic are all used, but none for these modalities will renew and revitalize the discs. So what is the point? Try asking your doctor this question and watch them squirm…Surgery is sometimes recommended for particularly advanced cases of disc degeneration, but is rarely truly necessary. Spinal fusion and artificial disc replacement surgeries are used extensively on patients with unresolved back pain related to disc abnormalities. Many of these patients suffer extremely poor results from these procedures and continue to have pain. Others develop pain in a new area and very, very few are truly cured permanently… Advice on Degenerative Disc Disease SymptomsPlease… If you have been diagnosed with degenerative disc disease as your primary source of discomfort, do some much needed research. Learn all you can about the condition and do not acquiesce to treatment until you have understood both the diagnosis and all the treatment options completely. My recommendation is always to include knowledge therapy in your care regimen, since it might be all you need to get past the symptoms and set the stage for a healthy and pain free future. This is the same treatment I used to beat my pain and I feel good about my recommendation, since the therapy is free from both risks and costs… Be especially careful about even thinking about surgical treatment for DDD. The results are abysmal and can create lasting and real disability due to surgical damage to otherwise healthy spinal tissues and structures.8/10/09
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