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

(1990) disc degeneration in at least one lumbar metameric level is detectable in 35% of twenty- to thirty-nine-year-old subjects, but all sixty- to eighty-year-old subjects show disc degenerative ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Introduction Degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis (DLSS ... The secondary outcomes include the assessment of lower back pain and leg pain using the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS), the change in the number ...

Mesenchymal stem cells therapy may also be associated with a lower risk of adverse events and reoperation ... the efficacy of MSCs against intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration in patients with ...

The damage may be caused by degeneration and/or traumatic ... the condition is called lumbar radiculopathy, and it often causes the commonly recognized sciatica pain that shoots down a lower extremity ...