What Is Degenerative Disc Disease?
10. Other Treatment
Some patients may also be prescribed physical therapy. This will help to increase the strength of the muscles in the neck and back, and this will help to give the spine more support. Physical therapy can be hard work, but it can make a considerable positive difference to the patient’s condition overall.
Surgery might be deemed necessary in cases where other treatments are not effective. This will sometimes involve a procedure that involves replaced a problematic disc with an artificial one. Another procedure involves removing the disc and then permanently fusing the bones together. A discectomy might also be performed, which involves removing part of a disc that is damaged.
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