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.