This process is called disc degeneration and can reduce the space through which nerves exit ... respectively), but they are most commonly performed in the lower back. These are known as lumbar ...

Adjacent Segment Disease (ASD) and Adjacent Segment Degeneration (ASDeg) are common complications following lumbar fusion surgery ... risk factors identified as lower bone mineral density ...

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.

OBJECTIVES--To record the extent and location of lumbar apophyseal cartilage damage, and to ascertain if the extent of damage is correlated with the grade of disc degeneration, age, or both.

kcl.ac.uk Objective Lumbar disc degeneration (LDD) is an important cause of low back pain, which is a common and costly problem. LDD is characterised by disc space narrowing and osteophyte growth at ...

Dynamic stabilization is an emerging approach in the treatment of lumbar degenerative diseases ... shorter recovery times, and lower rates of complications. Recent studies have compared various ...

1 Disability Prevention Centre, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland To assess the associations of acceleration force indicators (aircraft type and flight hours) with cervical ...

The condition can occur in the cervical spine (neck), thoracic spine (mid back) or the lumbar spine (lower back). Cervical and lumbar stenosis are the most ... Stenosis can be caused by age-related ...

This repository contains code notebooks that were used to train and evaluate all models mentioned in the manuscript Background: Lumbar spine degeneration is a major cause of back pain and is one of ...