This review aimed to summarize the recent advances and challenges in the field of regenerative therapies for lumbar disc degeneration. The current first-line treatment options for symptomatic lumbar ...

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. Physical exercise is ...

Smoking damages the spine by decreasing blood flow, hastening disc degeneration, hindering the healing process, and raising ...

Background: Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) can lead to disc herniation and spinal instability, sometimes requiring surgical intervention. Currently, estrogen has a potential protective effect ...

Researchers created a synthetic mucin gel that prevents immune activation and protects residual disc tissue post-surgery.

especially the lower back and can lead to degeneration over time. And if we don’t exercise our back to strength the muscles, the same muscles that are supposed to support the spine get weak and affect ...

Discure Technologies announced today that it raised $11 million in an oversubscribed Series A, adding to a separate $5 ...

Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a gel inspired by cow slime for patients suffering from disc herniation. By ...

Causes include trauma, overload (i.e. obesity) or age-related degeneration (Tilley and Smith JR ... Typically survey x-rays are taken to look for broken vertebrae or misalignments within the spinal ...