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.

Degenerative ... disc disease is extremely rare. Intrigued by this fact and how it might apply to humans, researchers in Toronto, Canada, decided to conduct a gene expression study on ...

Intervertebral disc prosthesis: results and prospects ... Treatment of symptomatic adjacent-segment degeneration after lumbar fusion with total disc arthroplasty by using the ProDisc prosthesis ...

[5–7] Artificial intervertebral disc arthroplasty has been proposed ... It has the theoretic advantage of a reduced risk of adjacent segment degeneration. Thus, the question is how the outcomes ...

Chronic low back pain is a leading global cause of disability, often stemming from multifactorial factors like disc ...

Degenerative spine diseases (DSDs), particularly those affecting the intervertebral ... stenosis and degenerative disc disease, with a higher risk of issues in the lumbar spine.