UPF researchers have led the creation of a computational simulator that is unique in the world to study one of the causes of chronic back pain, in the framework of research conducted in collaboration ...

Intervertebral disc degeneration is defined by a progressive loss of water and structure, and consequently of functionality. It differs from the natural aging of the disc by the early onset of ...

Orthopedic surgeon Dr Rahman points out that sugar and unbalanced diets worsen back pain and hinder disc recovery, emphasising the importance of nutrition.

A team of students from the LSU Shreveport Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab won first place at the national ...

Moreover, the cells produced these components in a very similar ratio to that found in an intervertebral disc. The authors concluded that the 10 million cell per mL density presented the best balance ...

IN 1948 and 1950 Lindblom1 , 2 reported his experience with diskography. In these reports he described a method of direct visualization of normal and pathologic lumbar intervertebral disks by means ...

An image of cells on a disc-on-a-chip modelling a healthy intervertebral disc. Credit: Trends in Biotechnology (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2023.04.009 ...

The intervertebral discs between the spinal vertebrae comprise a gel-like core, the nucleus pulposus (NP), encased by a tough, fibrous outer ring.