Hello I had a fall while in the Army back in1978 was operated on in Germany and was left to heal from inside out been having problems with the skin breaking open and bleeds where the inscision is have had a ct with contrast it shows no drainable fluid collection/abscessess they want to operate saying to get a abscesse out. having lower back pain buttock hurts and runs down my leg it shows L5-S1 intervertebral disc disease

Summarized question: How can intervertebral disc disease be treated?