title: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Pain Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. harpreet.singh@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Harpreet
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D055959:Intervertebral Disc Degeneration / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D055815:Young Adult