The main causes of facet hypertrophy include spinal degeneration, synovial inflammation, and joint instability or injury.

Symptoms include: Facet arthropathy is a type of degenerative arthritis that causes progressive damage to the spine. Spinal osteoarthritis (also known as spondylosis) is the most common cause ...

Facet joint pain is a common source of chronic low back pain, often resulting from conditions ... anatomical study of the medial branches of the lumbar dorsal rami, which are crucial for ...

Cervical spine facet dislocations ... treating acute cervical facet dislocations, even when traumatic disc herniations are present. The findings suggested that early spinal realignment could ...

[8] Degenerative changes of both the facet joints and the intervertebral disk cause the slip, which is rarely more than a grade I slip. Sagittal orientation of the facet joints and facet tropism ...

In research arm 1, radiologists reviewed lumbar spine images with symptom information obtained from patient questionnaires and diagnosed facet joint degeneration as the presumptive pain generator.

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.

Recently, Dr. J. Alex Sielatycki, a fellowship-trained spine surgeon at Pioneers Medical Center (PMC) in Meeker, started ...