Degenerative Disc Disease and Pilates

Here is an interesting article about how Pilates can be helpful for degenerative disc disease.

Posted on Mon, January 30, 2012 by Rene Craig

1. Dagmar wrote:: Back pain has a multitude of orniigs. If she has shooting down her legs she probably has compression of a nerve, most likely where it branches out from the spine. DJD can aggrevate this, as can arthritis.The shots are epidural steroid injections. They work probably around 70% of the time. You need 2 or 3 to really see an effect. They can be repeated every year. If the joint space narrows too much they will no longer be effective.Pain medicines are generally narcotics or nonsteroidals. Narcotics like morphine, fentanyl, demoral, dilaudid can be given as pill, liquid, patch, suppository, or from an implanted pump. For chronic pain patients a long acting compound like fentanyl patch or methadone work best. Nonsteroidals like tylenol, aspirin, ibuprofen though not giving as much of a bang as narcotics work in a different way and should still be used.Other options are surgery (age has nothing to do with it), radiofrequency ablation, TENS, physical therapy, massage, You should take her to an interventional pain specialist to discuss these options. That is an anesthesiologist, neurologist or PMR physician. A psychiatrist, internist, or surgeon are generally not going to offer these options.
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