Having a back injury since age eleven, I had two choices. Disk surgery, or live with the pain. I chose the latter. Now we all have a third choice and that's a good thing.

It is estimated that back pain affects 80 per cent of people at some point in their lives. In the United States it is the most common cause of job-related disability, a leading contributor to people missing work.

Now, University of Manchester scientists have developed a gel which repairs damaged spinal discs.

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