Degenerative ... disc disease is extremely rare. Intrigued by this fact and how it might apply to humans, researchers in Toronto, Canada, decided to conduct a gene expression study on ...

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.

Spondylolisthesis was always associated with a history of back pain. A low prevalence of radiological cervical intervertebral disc degeneration of all grades of severity of 8·7% was found among the ...

Neck arthritis (also known as neck osteoarthritis or cervical spondylosis) is the degeneration of the joints ... Starting with the second vertebra (C2), there is a pad of soft cartilage called an ...

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 ...

Lastly, research on cervical disc degeneration and cervical spondylotic radiculopathy found that axial facet tropism was significantly associated with increased disc degeneration and the incidence ...

and exhibited degenerative intervertebral disk changes at L4/L5, L5/S1, or both. Patients with nerve root compression from herniated disks were excluded. At 2 years, a small significant difference ...