Three floors below Dmitriy Sheyn’s lab at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, doctors remove degenerated intervertebral discs from patients with severe back pain. Instead of tossing the old discs, however, ...

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 ...

The intervertebral discs act as cushions between the vertebrae of the spine, providing support, flexibility, and shock ...

Degenerative disc disease is one of ... decided to conduct a gene expression study on intervertebral discs from canines. Their results, presented in the December 2006 issue of Arthritis ...

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.

It is a surgical procedure in which damaged or degenerated intervertebral discs in the spinal column are replaced with artificial motion devices in the lumbar (lower back) or cervical (neck ...

It is a surgical procedure in which degenerated intervertebral discs or damaged discs in the spinal column are replaced with artificial devices in the lumbar (lower back) or cervical (neck ...

Intervertebral disc prosthesis ... Modic MT, Steinberg PM, Ross JS, Masaryk TJ, Carter JR: Degenerative disk disease: Assessment of changes in vertebral body marrow with MR imaging.

I graduated with a 1 st class honours degree in Pharmacology from The University of Manchester in 2000, and went on to undertake a Wellcome funded PhD at The University of Manchester investigating the ...