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 ...

Symptoms of degenerative disc disease are most commonly found in the low back or neck. The pain may: • Range from mild to severe and disabling. • Primarily affect the neck and lower back. • Extend to ...

Many doctors who undertake this task often state that because an x ray examination or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan soon after the injury shows degenerative disc disease (DDD), some or all of ...

Many individuals can benefit from minimally invasive spine surgery, such as those living with degenerative disc disease, ...

Disc degeneration, also called degenerative disc disease, is most commonly caused by age ... As discs degenerate, disc tissue flattens and spreads sideways, sometimes causing back or neck pain. Disc ...

Objective Osteoarthritis (OA) and osteoporosis are often considered to lie at opposite ends of a spectrum of bone phenotypes. Lumbar degenerative disc disease (LDD) may be associated with low back ...

These points are the neck or cervical spine ... weakness or numbness in limbs and paralysis.” 1. Degenerative Disc Disease – The fluids or water content present in the disc starts drying ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism. 2006;54(12):3859-3867. Degenerative disc disease is one of today's most common and costly medical conditions. Marked by the gradual erosion of cartilage between the ...

Two surgical options yield similar results for degenerative disc disease. For some people with degenerative disease in the lumbar spine, artificial disc replacement (ADR) is superior in several ways ...

Objectives Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM ... This study aimed to characterise patients with DCM route to diagnosis and surgical assessment as well as to plot disease progression over time.