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One of the problems with pain medications, such as opioids, is that they only treat the symptoms. In fact, they aren't doing a thing to resolve the actual source of your pain. And if you are looking for a long-term solution for pain relief, you need to address the root cause of the problem.
If you're dealing with chronic pain, now is the time to tackle it naturally and effectively. But how do you deal with chronic pain without the use of opioid pain medications?
Degenerative disc disease is a condition that can affect your spinal discs as you age. Due to the stresses, injuries and hopefully good times endured throughout life, our discs begin to deteriorate and can start to cause back pain or neck pain. Unfortunately, there is no way to prevent DDD but researchers have found that there are ways you can slow the process and minimize its effects. What I am trying to mitigate with this blog post is fear. Unfortunately, DDD is a topic many healthcare professionals “disasterize" causing patients go through life thinking they're defined by this horrible disease and doomed to suffer from back pain for the rest of their lives. My goal with this post is to instill some hope, together we will face degenerative disc disease and your back pain, head-on.
