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Degenerative Disk Disease? There Will be Pain…Maybe

Have you been told you have Degenerative Disk Disease? If so, welcome to the club. If you live long enough, you will get it. If you think about it, degenerative disk disease really should not be called a disease, as it is the normal process of disk degradation. It is like saying aging is a […]

Disk Degeneration in 21 Year Olds

During my training,  it was assumed that the average adolescent or teenager should have normal disc anatomy. It was assumed that  disc herniation/degeneration was a rare occurrence in that population.  But,  at that time,  technology such as a MRI scanner was relatively new, rare and expensive.  We did not have the capability to test to see […]