Disc degeneration alone was not found to have much impact on lower back pain; however, researchers found disc degeneration was highly associated with low back pain when combined with endplate signal ...

People who suffer from lower back problems are more likely to have a spine similar to that of the chimpanzee, our closest ape ancestor, researchers say. Back pain can result from a lesion known as a ...

“We confirmed that, overall, the presence of endplate lesions was associated with frequent back pain. Particularly, large endplate lesions were associated with both occasional and frequent back pain,” ...

A common spinal disease could be the result of some people's vertebrae, the bones that make up the spine, sharing similarities in shape to a non-human primate. The research suggests that the ...

BURNABY, CANADA—Biological anthropologist Kimberly Plomp of Simon Fraser University has investigated the relationship between vertebral shape, upright locomotion, and human spinal health using ...