Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is a critical health challenge, leading to a variety of spine diseases including intervertebral disc herniation, spinal stenosis, instability, etc., which ...

Addressing these gaps is crucial for improving patient outcomes and enhancing the quality of life for those affected by disc-related issues. This research topic aims to compile the latest advances in ...

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 ...

Three floors below Dmitriy Sheyn’s lab at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, doctors remove degenerated intervertebral ... of patients who have back pain that we don’t really know the cause," said ...

Many aspects of the physiology of the intervertebral disc (IVD) show clear diurnal rhythms. However, it is unknown whether IVD tissue contains functional circadian clocks and if so, how their ...

There was a weak correlation between apophyseal joint damage and the intervertebral disc degenerative grade, but this was inconclusive, as both increased with age. CONCLUSIONS--The pattern of damage ...

Patients who have radicular symptoms but ... is the development of DDD in adjacent discs. [5–7] Artificial intervertebral disc arthroplasty has been proposed as an alternative that might ...

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.

This process is called disc degeneration and can reduce the space through which nerves exit, called the intervertebral foramen. Spinal fusion is a surgical treatment ... In this minimally invasive ...

The concept of disc replacement has been around since the 1950s, when methacrylate cement was placed into an intervertebral disc space ... says Dr. Zigler. The best patient for a lumbar ADR is someone ...