 it must be very difficult to especially treat a child with a slip disc i believe right and how are you treating them doctor is there medicines for it problem for the family and everybody is anxious as to how can such a young child have a slip disc yeah it must be very difficult to especially treat a child with a slip disc i believe right and how are you treating them doctor is there medicines for it yeah so most of the time these are these degenerating processes are silent processes that is it does not cause pain when it does cause pain that means it is at a phase where there is a little bit of intense degeneration and the best treatment for that temporarily is rest and limited restricted activities wait for that acute phase to pass away and then get back into regular activities most of the time 99% of the time our patients get treated with without surgery with just medicines rest some amount of physiotherapy exercise programs and then over a period of time they are back on their feet and they will be able to run cycle swim play games good attend school regularly like all normal children there are some medications at times we rely on when there is a lot of inflammation we put them on anti-inflammatory medications we may even resort to steroids for acute pain relief and reduction in inflammation we put certain nerve modulators which help in reducing nerve pain yeah we may even end up giving them a steroid shot around in the spine inside the spine around the nerve roots so that the swelling of the nerves can reduce can be reduced or the inflammation in the disc can be reduced yes very very rarely a child may need like at the age of 16 or 18 a child may need a disc surgery where we go in and do an endoscopic or a keyhole surgery or a micro disc ketamine where we go in and remove that part of the disc which is sitting on the nerve and causing the pain we relieve the nerve of that compression thus the patient is also relieved of the pain so there is medicines there is rest there's physiotherapy there is steroid injections like epidural steroids and rarely there is even micro surgery for a slip disc in a child