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.

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 ...

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 ...

The lumbosacral joint connects these bones. L5-S1 is vulnerable to misalignment and injury. It can also be the site of a disc ...

What role do emotional distress and anxiety play in the degradation of intervertebral ... the degenerative process. What are ...