FEATURED TOPIC - THE BACK

This 'Featured Topic' is on 'The Back.' This is a suitable starting point for our featured topics as most people in the world will at some point in their life be unable to perform their regular daily activities because of back pain, especially lower back pain. The following articles will hopefully help you understand the workings of the back and therefore offer some insight into back pain, back care, and the treatment of back pain.

ARTICLE 2: LUMBAR DISC QUIZ

  1. Biochemical changes in the intervertebral disc begin at about the age of 18 years. What are these changes and what is their overall result as far as disc function is concerned?
  2. List the changes that occur in the anulus and nucleus of the disc during degeneration.
  3. In degeneration, the disc height actually increases, what is the mechanism behind this increase?

  4. How is disc degradation different from disc degeneration?
  5. In order for the nucleus of the disc to become externalized (prolapse or extrude) what factors must be present, what changes must occur in the nucleus and what speculations have been made as to how these changes come about?

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