As populations worldwide continue to age, chronic back pain caused by intervertebral disc degeneration is emerging as a widespread and costly health burden. Now, researchers have uncovered a key ...

Karin Wuertz-Kozak described her lab test equipment as a gym for cells. Stretching and compressions tests using bioreactors—her lab equipment—can make a difference in understanding how cells respond ...

As spine leaders look ahead to 2026, enthusiasm around regenerative medicine and neuromodulation continues to build. But much of the conversation still flattens a field that is far more complex than ...

Degenerative cervical spondylosis is a chronic, progressive deterioration of osseocartilaginous components of the cervical spine that is most often related to aging. Radiographic evidence of ...

In degenerative disc disease (DDD), the discs that separate your spine's bones, or vertebrae, start to breakdown, or degenerate. The discs provide cushion between the vertebrae, absorb shock, and ...