Simple water-based exercises, such as swimming or water aerobics, can greatly improve muscle strength around the spine, ...

Three floors below Dmitriy Sheyn’s lab at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, doctors remove degenerated intervertebral discs from patients with severe back pain. Instead of tossing the old discs, however, ...

Scientists have officially grown a notochord—the tissues that act as the “GPS for the developing embryo” by guiding the ...

It’s not just the big-name celebrities of the skeleton—the hips and knees and shoulders—that scream at us as we accumulate ...

Intervertebral disc disease in dogs is a spinal condition that affects the discs between the vertebrae. The discs in between ...

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As part of an IACUC-approved study on therapeutic modalities for intervertebral disc degeneration, a principal investigator acquired 24 adult female New Zealand white rabbits from a commercial ...