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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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