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 ...

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.

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 ...

Recent studies have reported varying incidences of ASD following lumbar fusion surgeries ... index (BMI), and preoperative adjacent intervertebral disc degeneration[1]. Another study focusing ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to DiscGenics for a Phase III clinical trial of its allogeneic injectable disc progenitor cell therapy (IDCT or rebonuputemcel) to ...