It’s not just the big-name celebrities of the skeleton—the hips and knees and shoulders—that scream at us as we accumulate ...

The cranio-vertrebral joint in fish is like any other intervertebral joint. The head is not any more mobile on the spinal column than any other two vertebrae are on each other. Fish can’t move its ...

Facet hypertrophy is when the joints that help articulate the spinal column—called facet joints—become enlarged, resulting in ...

For early postmenopausal women, zoledronate administered at baseline and five years is effective for preventing mor ...

Vertebral arthritis is almost always a form of osteoarthritis that results from years of stooped posture and poor flexibility ...

Posteriorly, the bony arch encircles the spinal canal (Fig 1). It is composed of transverse processes, facet joints, two pedicles, two laminae, and a spinous process. In the lumbar spine ...

The development of degenerative vertebral slippage usually involves arthritis of the facet joints with loss of normal structural support . The condition occurs most often at the L4-L5 level ...