Conservative treatment can include analgesics, a short course of steroids, avoidance of provocative activities, cervical traction, neck immobilization ... to the cervical disc disease or when ...

Dr Loo sees many people aged 18 to 35 with neck and lower back pain arising from degenerative disc disease. By age 35, one in three individuals will show signs of the disease on imaging scans ...

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.

The spine is an amazing part of our body. It’s our central bone structure. It’s a conduit for messages from our brain to our ...

Objectives: We conducted this systematic review of animal models of paraspinal muscle (PSM) degeneration secondary to degenerative intervertebral disc (IVD), providing a comprehensive evaluation of ...

Trabecular bone strains may be influenced by the underlying intervertebral disc (IVD). Understanding how disc degeneration alters load distribution to the vertebra may demonstrate that supplementing ...

The fusion may limit the range of motion of your neck. You might have a more extensive or complicated surgery if you have multiple levels of disease or if you have bone deformities in addition to disc ...