Surgery is typically indicated when six months of conservative therapy have not been successful, if there is a neurologic deficit attributable to the cervical disc disease or when the symptoms ...

Degenerative disc disease is one ... this destructive disease of the spine routinely provokes low back pain, the leading cause of disability in people under age 45 in the United States.

Think: Strain to your muscles, ligaments, and tendons, as well as degenerative disc disease, disc bulges, and disc herniation ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510 (k) clearance to a standalone lateral lumbar interbody fusion ...

which is conducive to the recovery of the disease, forming a virtuous circle. The treatment of lumbar degenerative diseases in obese patients is controversial. MarieT et al. used minimally invasive ...

4 Shenzhen Institute of Tsinghua University, Laboratory of Biomedical Material and Implanted Devices, Shenzhen, China. As a new choice for the treatment of degenerative lumbar disease, artificial ...

Low back pain or what has commonly been referred to as "sciatica" or "lumbago" can have many etiologies and, often, is multifactorial. Some of the more common causes are disc herniation, degenerative ...

Research indicates that smoking can contribute to conditions like spinal stenosis and degenerative disc disease, with a higher risk of issues in the lumbar spine. Research indicates that smoking ...

Theradaptive, a privately held, clinical stage biologics company developing targeted protein therapeutics for spine, orthopedics, soft tissue repair and targeted immuno-oncology, today announced the ...

The authors examined the contribution of genetic factors, lumbar disc degeneration (LDD) and other risk factors in a female sample of the general population. Material and Methods A cross-sectional ...

During the change of seasons when the daily temperature difference between day and night increases, it is easy to be exposed ...