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.

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 ...

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 ...

This study does not implicate parachuting as a cause of intervertebral disc degeneration, either cervical or lumbar, nor as a cause of spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis. Serious long-term disability ...

Anatomy, back, intervertebral discs. In: StatPearls ... Silverman LI, Heaton W, Farhang N, et al. Perspectives on the treatment of lumbar disc degeneration: the value proposition for a cell-based ...

From hereon we refer to this reading as the ‘degenerative reading’. On the radiographs, loss of disc height was defined as narrowing of the disc space in comparison with two adjacent (healthy) discs.

While degenerative disc disease can begin as early as your 30s or 40s, most people experience it as a slow-progressing condition past those ages. It’s possible to have it without even experiencing any ...

This approach involved small-dose collagenase injection at an extradiscal target point of the lumbar intervertebral disc, combined with intradiscal oxygen-ozone injection ... (b) Decompression effect: ...

Methods: We developed an automated and robust pipeline that generates and simulates biofidelic vertebrae and intervertebral disc finite element method (FEM ... 2024), for instance, relating certain ...