VIENNA — From their study of disc degeneration and low back pain in female twins in the TwinsUK register, investigators at King’s College London concluded that lumbar disc degeneration and genetics ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published results showed obesity was a strong predictor of both the incidence and worsening of lumbar spine ...

Did you know that chronic lower back pain is the single greatest cause of years lived with disability worldwide? One of the main causes of lower back pain is lumbar degenerative disc disease. This is ...

The development of degenerative vertebral slippage usually involves arthritis of the facet joints with loss of normal structural support . The condition occurs most often at the L4-L5 level, and most ...

Dr. Carragee and colleagues studied the progression of disk degeneration over a 10-year period using a prospective cohort study. Fifty-seven patients with low back pain underwent a 3-level lumbar ...

There is a serious condition that I see in my practice every single day – Osteoarthritis, Disc, and Spinal Degeneration. Believe it or not, it usually has a start ...

About 80 percent of the active population suffers from low back pain at some point in their lives. Researchers now show that overloading on already degenerated discs is less damaging than on discs ...

Karin Wuertz-Kozak described her lab test equipment as a gym for cells. Stretching and compressions tests using bioreactors—her lab equipment—can make a difference in understanding how cells respond ...

Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite athletes as compared with published literature of changes seen in non-athletes—that is, normal population.

Did you know that chronic lower back pain is the single greatest cause of years lived with disability worldwide? One of the main causes of lower back pain is lumbar degenerative disc disease. This is ...