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 ...

Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) is a clinical condition of upper motor neuron lesion signs, that is confirmed with advanced imaging demonstrating compression of the spinal cord in the cervical ...

Methods Whole spine MRI and cervical and lumbar radiographs of patients ≥18 years with chronic back pain (≥3 months, ≤3 years, onset <50 years) were assessed for degeneration by two readers, and for ...

Congenital narrowing of the cervical spinal canal may result in cord compression without a history of injury and occasionally without evidence of significant bony degenerative changes. The clinical ...

The guideline development process was guided by AO Spine Knowledge Forum Degenerative (KF Degen) and followed the Guideline ...

Among all the possible causes of myelopathy, subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord, neurological complication of vitamin B12 (cobalamin) deficiency, is one of the less often seen. We ...

An important and limiting complication of cervical spine fusion surgery is the development ... advantage of a reduced risk of adjacent segment degeneration. Thus, the question is how the outcomes ...

Cervical and lumbar stenosis are the most common forms ... Stenosis can be caused by age-related degeneration of the spine or traumatic injury to the spine. In rarer instances, stenosis can be due to ...

Objectives Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) involves extrinsic spinal cord compression causing tissue injury and neurological dysfunction. Asymptomatic spinal cord compression (ASCC) is more ...

Results showed treatment of degenerative spondylolisthesis in ... For individuals with recent acute cervical spinal cord injuries, treatment with a novel neuroregenerative therapeutic was ...

Spinal injuries and symptoms were studied in 109 ex-military ... This study does not implicate parachuting as a cause of intervertebral disc degeneration, either cervical or lumbar, nor as a cause of ...