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.

[4] The disc is removed ... pressure from the spinal nerves and to realign and stabilize the spinal segment. Bony material (either autograft or allograft) is placed into the intervertebral space ...

Objective To identify the reason of the lower back pain, a detailed MRI analysis of disk degeneration (DD ... I through V) of five intervertebral disks (L1/2 to L5/S1) on MRI using Pfirrmann's ...