Degenerative Disc Disease

Symptoms: 

• Chronic Lower Back or Neck Ache: Persistent pain in the lower back or neck, often due to disc wear and nerve irritation, which can affect daily activities.
• Pain during activities: Discomfort intensifies during activities that place stress on the spine, such as prolonged sitting, bending forward, or twisting movements.
• Tingling or Numbness: Sensations of tingling or numbness in the extremities occur when degenerated discs compress nearby nerves.
• Reduced Flexibility: Loss of spinal disc integrity leads to stiffness, making it difficult to bend, stretch, or move the spine freely.
• Pain during walking: Pain relief often occurs with walking or lying down as these positions reduce pressure on the affected discs and nerves.
• Muscle Weakness or Spasms: Weakness or involuntary muscle spasms can result from nerve compression caused by disc degeneration, affecting strength and movement control.

Our treatments

• Manual Therapy: Maneuvers that are commonly used to address discomfort and posture of the spine and total flexibility of the back. 
• Core Strengthening Exercises: Several specific corrective programs to help build up the muscles in one’s abdominals which makes it easier to support the spine to reduce pressure on the discs. 
• Posture Correction: Exercises that help to correct improper standing, thus not placing extra pressure on discs located in the spine and therefore reduce pain. 
• Stretching and Flexibility Exercises: These are particular exercises that assist to increase flexibility around the joints and diminish the tension somewhere around the spine hence providing it the freedom it needs to move. 
• Heat and Cold Therapy: Use of heated or cold packs as a way of minimizing inflammation or massaging the muscles aroundInvoice damaged discs. 
• Therapeutic Ultrasound: Operates with the use of sound waves whereby it encourages tissue repair, attacks inflammation and helps in eradication of pains. 

Education on Body Mechanics: Advice on how to stand mam, sit, twist and turn without over straining the discs and causing more revert episodes. 

Diagnosis: 

The assessment of Degenerative Disc Disease in Spine Mantra is all encompassing to guarantee correct diagnosis and therapy for patients. 

• Physical Examination: An assessment of the patient’s general positioning, and alignment of the spine and parts of the body to assess their range of movements as well. 
• Patient History Review: Symptoms, qualified patient’s lifestyle and medical history to define possible risk factors and the severity of the disorder. 
• Pain Assessment: Identifying specific locations of pain and factors which provoke pain through tests and patients’ comments. 
• Range of Motion Testing: Evaluating the degree of spinal mobility to establish the level of restricted and painful range of motion. 
• Postural Analysis: Assessing the patient’s posture to recognize movements causing uneven distribution of pressure on the spinal discs. 
• Functional Movement Screening: Interacting with the patient to try and see how the condition impacts on the patient’s activities in the day. 

Spine Mantra offers non-surgical physiotherapy treatment plans exclusively for patients with DDD or Degenerative Disc Disease including treatment solutions that bring hope and indirgescence to a healthier life.