Degenerative disc disease is one of today's ... this destructive disease of the spine routinely provokes low back pain, the leading cause of disability in people under age 45 in the United States.

Surgery is typically indicated when six months of conservative therapy have not been successful, if there is a neurologic deficit attributable to the cervical disc disease or when the symptoms ...

Russian Federation Background Low back pain (BP), associated with the degenerative disc disease (DDD), poses a heavy social and economic burden, emerging among young adults. The pathophysiological ...

Low back pain or what has commonly been referred to as "sciatica" or "lumbago" can have many etiologies and, often, is multifactorial. Some of the more common causes are disc herniation, degenerative ...

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 ...

which is conducive to the recovery of the disease, forming a virtuous circle. The treatment of lumbar degenerative diseases in obese patients is controversial. MarieT et al. used minimally invasive ...

This surgery may be performed in a single level (a one spinal segment) or multilevel (multiple segments), depending on the patient ... It's typically recommended for patients with degenerative disc ...

Beverly Jerrard says she has been "let down by the system", adding: "I have not had a miraculous discovery - I am falling apart." ...

Many aspects of the physiology of the intervertebral disc (IVD) show clear diurnal rhythms ... the mouse IVD molecular clock predisposes to IVD degeneration. These results support the concept that ...

Dr. Graff-Radford's Memory Disorders Lab is studying large cohorts of Caucasian and African American people with Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia and many controls with ...