In some cases, the compression of the spinal cord can cause more serious symptoms like urinary or bowel incontinence, he adds. However, not everyone with degenerative disc disease will experience ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD A pinched nerve in the lower back occurs when excessive pressure is applied to a ...

Sitting for extended periods can lead to serious spinal issues, including degenerative disc disease, herniated discs, and ...

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.

Using clinical metrics of disc degeneration to infer which regions of the vertebra are most vulnerable to fracture may be beneficial for targeting the location of cement reinforcement in prophylactic ...

Spinal injuries and symptoms were studied in 109 ex-military parachutists and 112 sport (free ... Of the ex-military parachutists x-rayed, 84·7% had lumbar disc degeneration of all grades of severity, ...

1 Department of Spine Surgery, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei, China 2 Department of Joint Surgery, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei ...

Spinal degeneration, also known as degenerative disc disease or spondylosis ... radicular pain commonly referred to as sciatica and other symptoms. Genetics can play a role in predisposing ...

From hereon we refer to this reading as the ‘degenerative reading’. On the radiographs, loss of disc height was defined as narrowing of the disc space in comparison with two adjacent (healthy) discs.