Non-Surgical Treatment For Discogenic Low Back Pain
On today’s episode of Premier Pain Talk, Dr. Danko presents a webinar on the novel treatment called intervertebral allograft injection for degenerative disk disease. Tune in for all of the information.
Episode Highlights:
- Have you heard of VIA disc? It is a nonsurgical treatment for degenerative disc disease. It is fairly new to pain management. Dr. Danko has been able to provide this to his patients for over a year now.
- Dr. Danko explains his experience with the procedure.
- Low back pain is a very common issue, the single greatest cause of disability over the course of our lives.
- Over the last 25 years, the prevalence of back pain has increased. Dr. Danko explains why and common factors.
- Vertebral compression fractures can occur and cause really severe back pain and they get worse with forward flexion.
- Where does disc herniation pain come from?
- What are the degenerative changes?
- What is degenerative disc disease and how does it occur? How is it accelerated?
- Dr. Danko explains what a provider looks at and what kind of exams are done when identifying discogenic back pain.
- Discogenic back pain is a constant central back pain that can occur in the legs as well and worse with leaning forward.
- What is an MRI scan and what does it help identify?
- Degeneration of the discs go from grade 1 (normal healthy disc to grade 8 (most deteriorated)
- What treatments were determined to not be effective?
- VIA disc has been a game changer. Why?
- VIA disc NP is the first and only nucleus pulposus allograft to replace a patient’s tissue loss due to disc degeneration.
- What is the VIA disc procedure like? Dr. Danko explains.
- Muscle relaxants and back braces are common after the procedure.
- Healing takes time. Dr. Danko has advice for not becoming discouraged but rather being patient waiting on the regeneration process.
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