Arthritis & Rheumatism. 2006;54(12):3859-3867. Degenerative disc disease is one of today's most common and costly medical conditions. Marked by the gradual erosion of cartilage between the ...

You may be able to prevent degenerative disc disease (DDD), or limit its effects, by making lifestyle changes to lower your weight, get more exercise, stop smoking, and more.

This is called degenerative disk disease, which usually is a slow degradation of disks over time. Here's what you need to ...

This is a double-step image for a healthy eye (left) and a pathological eye (right) for a patient with unilateral age-related macular degeneration and a pupil diameter of 3mm.

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 ...

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.

In a paper published in JOR Spine, researchers looked at patients with and without lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis to examine the differences in gut microbiome in the two groups.

The paper, by N. Vapniarsky at University of California, Davis in Davis, Calif.; and colleagues was titled, " Tissue engineering toward temporomandibular joint disc regeneration." ...

Knowing a patient’s symptoms helps radiologists in lumbar spine MRI interpretation and diagnosis, according to a new study.

and bone healing technologies to treat patients with back or neck pain caused by degenerative conditions, deformities, tumors or traumatic injury of the spine. The Dental Products segment provides ...