A diagnosis of degenerative disc disease can sound more dramatic than the day-to-day problem it creates. What usually pushes someone to look for care is more concrete: sitting through a drive has become uncomfortable, standing through work takes more effort, sleep keeps getting interrupted, or familiar activities now come with a calculation about how much the back can tolerate.
At Disc Centers of America - Spring, degenerative disc disease is one of the conditions evaluated within its disc-focused care. Dr. Jeffrey A. Young, D.C., looks at the symptoms, their effect on normal activity, previous treatment, diagnostic information, and examination findings before determining whether non-surgical spinal decompression belongs in the discussion.
A Diagnosis Does Not Tell You How Much the Condition Is Affecting You
Degenerative disc disease describes age-related changes in the spinal discs, which can lose water content, height, and flexibility over time. These changes become increasingly common with age, and they do not cause pain in everyone.
