Dr Loo sees many people aged 18 to 35 with neck and lower back pain arising from degenerative disc disease. By age 35, one in three individuals will show signs of the disease on imaging scans ...

“Now, the number of [people I see about] neck problems is rising because ... pins and needles, and even degenerative disc disease – a condition in which a damaged spinal disc causes back ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an ongoing court-martial, Maj. Michael Stockin pleaded guilty to sexually abusing male soldiers under the guise of medical ...

Intervertebral hernia, neck and lumbar pain, man suffering from backache at home, spinal disc disease, health problems concept 3D Scanning of Full Length Spine Animated xray view of a patient with an ...

Two well-calibrated readers (FdB, MOT) assessed all MRIs and radiographs for degenerative lesions. Adjudication was performed (MR for MRI and AF for radiographs) on a per-lesion basis, except for the ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the relation between spinal degenerative disease, allelic variation in the vitamin D receptor gene, and lifestyle factors in a population-based association study. METHODS Random ...

Results: The disc signal intensity was progressively reduced the more caudal the disc space. It was most common at the L5/S1 level, and, of the abnormal group, 36% (n = 11) showed the most ...