e-algos / Conditions / Low Back Pain / Disc Degenerative Disease
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP)
GENERAL Disc Degenerative Disease (DDD) is the distortion of the interior architecture of an intervertebral disc, not necessarily because of disc protrusion and with no clinical signs of nerve root compression. It is estimated that approximately 40% of patients suffering from chronic low back pain are due to intervertebral disc degeneration. (3,4) ANATOMY Intervertebral discs [...]
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