To confirm that a patient has vertebrogenic pain, physicians use MRI to look for specific changes that occur with endplate inflammation, which are called Modic changes. A vertebral endplate is ...

instituted by the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS), Canada. The research work ‘Cartilage End Plate Defects Precede and Initiate Bony End Plate Defects and Disc ...

Department of Orthopedics and Spine Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, 218 Jixi Road, Hefei, Anhui 230022, China Laboratory of Spinal and Spinal Cord Injury ...

First, we use the nanosecond laser to create a tactile microporous structure that provides a high friction interface between the endplate of the implant and the vertebral endplate. Then we use the ...

Results Revisions were made for both inflammatory (bone marrow oedema, BMO) and structural (fat, erosion, bone spur and ankylosis) lesions, including localisation (central vs lateral), extension (VC ...

Vertebrogenic pain is a type of chronic (ongoing) pain in your lower back caused by damage to vertebral endplates. An endplate is a layer of bone and cartilage at the top and bottom of each of ...

FlareHawk in particular can conform to patients’ endplate geometry ... and our vision for the future of minimally invasive spine care,” said Kevin McGann, president & CEO of Accelus.

To be considered of grade 1 or higher, the syndesmophyte should cross the drawn straight line extending from the vertebral endplate (figure 4; third image can be scored as grade 1). Differentiation ...

Schmorl’s nodes are a type of herniated disk that can affect the spine. They occur when tissue inside the disks slips out and pushes up or down into adjacent vertebrae. They are not cancerous ...

This suggests the anti-senescence drug can prevent the degeneration and remodelling associated with ageing or spine instability. Finally, because porous endplates allow new nerves to grow into the ...

Contrary to the center of the endplate, which is supported by cancellous bone, the vertebral ring apophysis, which is composed of the surrounding cortical bone border, has been demonstrated to be the ...

Now, scientists have discovered how some of these early marine reptiles evolved these lengthy necks rather quickly — by adding new vertebrae to their spines. To find out how these animals ...