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

Facet joints are small joints located between the vertebrae in the spine, playing a crucial role in spinal stability and movement. Recent research has increasingly focused on the morphology of ...

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

The spine consists of bones called vertebrae and discs between two bones. The disc is an avascular structure – meaning it has ...

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 ...

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

This model showed that the predicted lumbar vertebral joint forces were more aligned with individual muscle activation patterns compared to traditional static optimization methods, indicating a ...