Disc Disease and Back Pain in Young Adults

ABSTRACT

Questions from patients about pain conditions and analgesic pharmacotherapy and responses from authors are presented to help educate patients and make them more effective self-advocates. This article contains a brief description of disc disease in young adults resulting in chronic low back pain. Topics including causes of early degeneration of disc, therapies, and suggestions for strengthening the discs are discussed.

KEYWORDS :

• aerobic exercise
• back pain in young adults
• core muscles
• ergonomic evaluation
• flexibility
• injury
• low back pain
• mechanical compression
• overweight
• premature disc degeneration
• smoking
• spine
• strength
• trauma
• twisting motion of back