DDD?

Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease?

Degenerative disc disease refers to a syndrome in which a compromised disc causes Low back pain. Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease usually starts with a torsional (twisting) injury to the lower back, such as when a person rotates to put something on a shelf or swing a golf club. However, the pain is also frequently caused by simple wear and tear on the spine.

Despite its rather dramatic label, degenerative disc disease is fairly common, and it is estimated that at least 30% of people aged 30-50 years old will have some degree of disc space degeneration, although not all will have pain or ever receive a formal diagnosis. In fact, after a patient reaches 60, some level of disc degeneration is deemed to be a normal finding, not the exception.

As discs lose their water content because of disease or age, they lose their height, bringing the vertebrae closer together. As a result, the nerve openings in your spine become more narrow. When this happens, the discs don’t absorb the shocks as well, particularly when you are walking, running, or jumping.

Wear and tear, poor posture, and incorrect body movements can also weaken the disc, causing disc degeneration.

With Symptomatic degenerative disc disease, chronic low back pain sometimes radiates to the hips, or there is pain in the buttocks or thighs while walking; sporadic tingling or weakness through the knees may also be evident. Similar pain may be felt or may increase while sitting, bending, lifting, and twisting. Chronic neck pain can also be caused in the upper spine, with pain radiating to the shoulders, arms and hands. Neck pain may cause interrupted blood supply to the brain resulting in headaches, vertigo and worsened cognitive abilities and memory.

Treatment Options:
1) Low periods of Exercise
2) Surgery
3) Chance that I'm wrong?

So I haven't even turned 20 despite this being something for people aged 30+ and even then only 30% of the population..
hip pain? Periodically
Buttocks pain? Periodically
Sporadic Tingling or Weakness through knees? Check
Increased sitting, bending, lifting and twisting pain? Check
Chronic neck pain? Periodically
Pain radiating to shoulders, arms and hands? Check
Headaches? Check
Vertigo? Periodically
Worsened Cognitive Abilities? Check
Worsened Memory? Double Single Check
And the apparent, periodic duration of severe pain hindering movement pretty much completely? Triple Double Single Check

Certainty of disease? 30%..

Chances are I don't have it.. Seeing as I actually am 19 and not anywhere near 30..
Despite showing symptoms this is probably simply pain that stems from landing on my head through a front flip during my college years which back pain began a good year or so after the incident. The landing was painful, and there were many clicks upon landing.. However I did check in with the doctor and at the time there didn't seem to be anything wrong except a slightly stiff neck at the time..
So who knows? Maybe I'm just imagining things but I'd prefer to not have to endure it.. Not that I can't

Crippled at heart?.. Yeah.