Intervertebral disc disease in dogs is a spinal condition that affects the discs between the vertebrae. The discs in between ...

He explains that this column contains of 23 segments, called intervertebral discs, which act as shock-absorbing cushions, and "each one allows for the exit of a pair of nerves that gives sensation ...

THE cause of the backache has for years intrigued orthopedic surgeons. Many popularized diagnoses, such as sacroiliac slip, lumbosacral strain and so forth, represent phases of progress in ...

Three floors below Dmitriy Sheyn’s lab at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, doctors remove degenerated intervertebral discs from patients with severe back pain. Instead of tossing the old discs, however, ...

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It works by degrading the chondroitin sulfate that, in its hydrated state, makes up the bulk of the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc. Safety-wise, one of the concerns of this approach ...