Researchers shed new light on predicting spinal disc degeneration
Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
About 80% of the active population suffers from low back pain at some point in their lives. In a paper published on August 4th 2011 in PLoS Computational Biology, researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) show that overloading on already degenerated discs is less damaging than on discs which are still healthy and that changes in cell density in discs are fundamental to the process of disc degeneration.