4 Shenzhen Institute of Tsinghua University, Laboratory of Biomedical Material and Implanted Devices, Shenzhen, China. As a new choice for the treatment of degenerative lumbar disease, artificial ...

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.

Recent studies have reported varying incidences of ASD following lumbar fusion surgeries ... and preoperative adjacent intervertebral disc degeneration[1]. Another study focusing on patients ...

Recent research has increasingly focused on the morphology of these joints and their relationship with degenerative spinal conditions, such as lumbar disc herniation, degenerative lumbar ...

Lumbar degenerative diseases encompass various conditions, such as lumbar spondylolisthesis, lumbar disc herniation, and lumbar spinal stenosis, which are summarized by the overall state of the lumbar ...

Many conditions can cause pain in the lumbar spine, including lumbar stenosis, fracture, degenerative disc disease, and others. Surgical and non-surgical treatments can help reduce pain and improve ...

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 ...

the lower back is capable and prone to developing pain from injury or degenerative changes, some of which include: ...

Beside them qualitative parameters, e.g., disc protrusion or hypertrophic facet joint degeneration, are used to describe abnormalities in the lumbar spine. Lumbar spinal stenosis is a common ...

From hereon we refer to this reading as the ‘degenerative reading’. On the radiographs, loss of disc height was defined as narrowing of the disc space in comparison with two adjacent (healthy) discs.