Three floors below Dmitriy Sheyn’s lab at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, doctors remove degenerated intervertebral discs from patients with severe back pain. Instead of tossing the old discs, however, ...

In this case, gas formed in a degenerated intervertebral disc migrated into the spinal canal, compressing the nerve root. The successful surgical intervention relieved the patient's symptoms ...

Abstract: There have been numerous researchers that have investigated the properties of human intervertebral discs. However, there has been no attempt to characterize the effects of dynamic loading on ...

Cervical artificial discs are used to treat this disorder. After the removal of a degenerated intervertebral disc, cervical artificial discs are instilled within two cervical discs. To maintain ...

therapies for intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) have been gaining increasing interest due to their capacity to ameliorate intervertebral disc metabolism and relieve low back pain (LBP). Recently, ...

Knowledge of lumbar intervertebral disc (IVD) biomechanics is central to understanding the genesis of low back and leg pain caused by disc dysfunction or herniation. Many non-surgical treatments for ...

The intervertebral disc (IVD) in the spine separates the bony vertebrae and permits movement of the spinal column. IVD degeneration is highly prevalent among the ageing population and is a leading ...

shu.ac.uk Objectives Interleukin 1 (IL-1) is potentially important in the pathogenesis of intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration; increasing production of matrix degradation enzymes and inhibiting ...

Since the disc is a soft structure and takes on a lot of load, it ends up getting degenerated because over time due to aging ...