what caused dehydrated discs in the spine?

Answer 1

As we age, the joints in our spine may develop arthritis that is similar to the degeneration that develops in other major joints, such as the hips and knees. In a similar manner, the shock absorbers of the spine, the intervertebral discs, may degenerate. As this process advances, the discs become dehydrated and cause pain.

Answer 2

Spinal discs are like jam doughnuts - they have a soft middle and a firmer outside. Both parts are made from a jelly-like substance (cartilage) that does contain some water.

Normal activities during the day will compress the discs. Different activities will put pressure on different discs up and down your spine.

This pressure does squeeze some of the water out of the discs, and they are smaller at the end of the day as a result. Being dryer, they are also harder and less mobile. Some people lose an inch of their height during a normal day.

(this is not the same as a 'disc prolapse' or 'slipped disc', where the jam bursts out of the doughnut)

When you lie down to sleep at night, the pressure on the discs is (usually) a lot less, so the discs can recover by absorbing fluid from the surrounding tissues. The fluid returns them to their springy state.

Any disc that is more heavily compressed than the others will take longer to recover.

Some people sleep in strange positions, or move about a lot while they sleep. This can apply pressure to their spinal discs, especially if they have a postural habit which leads to heavy loading on a particular disc. If you normally stand in a way that overuses a particular disc, any strange position you sleep in is likely to overload the same disc.

If you don't get a long enough, or relaxing enough, period of sleep
then it is possible to lose a little more fluid every day from the discs of your spine, than they can get back.

This is actually what happens normally as we get older, and it contributes to the normal loss of height with age.

Postural exercise systems (eg Pilates, Alexander Technique) can help by teaching you to spread the load you are putting on your discs, so that none of them are overly compressed.

Activities that involve hanging by your hands (like climbing a rope or rock face) can stimulate more fluid uptake in the discs. Equipment is available for hanging upside down, by the feet, and these can be even more effective, if used carefully (inversion tables, 'gravity boots' etc).

Anything that involves movement of the spine, without adding weight, such as swimming (when you swim, the water supports your weight), will also stimulate disc recovery.

However, swimming with the head held out of the water, often puts a lot of pressure on the discs in the neck.

Because discs are normally drier, harder and less flexible later in the day, some injuries are more common at that time, and some exercise systems advise working out in the morning because (among a lot of other reasons) the discs are better protected by their increased water content.

Answer 3

Are you sure you don't mean "degenerated" discs? More typically called degenerative disc disease, it refers to a syndrome in which a painful disc causes chronic low back pain. The condition generally starts with a twisting injury to the disc space. The injury weakens the disc and leads to problems with vertebral bones in the area because the disc cannot hold the vertebral segment together as well as it used to. This leads to inflammatory proteins inside the disc that become exposed and irritate the local area, produces low back pain.

Unlike the muscles in the back, the disc does not have a blood supply and therefore cannot heal itself and the painful symptoms of degenerative disc disease can become chronic. While it is rare that low back pain from degenerative disc disease will progress or increase, the pain will tend to fluctuate and at times may become significantly worse.

Answer 4

It could be overweight. The biggest problem here is to have
a disk hernia. Go to an orthopaedic spine specialist.

Answer 5

Age.

Answer 6

Read this article, its informative and easy to understand.

Answer 7

lack of water