Treatment for Degenerative Disk Disease
What do you do if your neck’s disks cause pain? It turns out that there are many choices for you. Try to avoid postures that cause pain in the first place. A neck brace may be helpful in some conditions. Other ways to relieve this neck painful condition include painkillers, anti-inflammatory drugs, and epidurals.
Surgery may be required if these treatment options fail. A well-known surgical procedure to treat this condition includes spinal fusion, using pins, screws, and bone grafts to stabilize the spine after extracting the damaged disk. This approach has the downside of worsening the degeneration of surrounding vertebral disks. Cervical disk placement is a newer approach with less risk of having an impact on nearby backbones.