Spineuniverse.com gives you informative answers to general questions about degenerative disc disease.

If we were to examine 100 low back x-rays of men and women over 50 years old, we would find a high percentage of what is often called “degenerative disc disease.”

We would find narrowed disc cartilage (discs are the shock absorbers or shock distributors between the vertebrae of your spine), perhaps some bulging of the disc, as well as bony spurs coming out from the vertebra (signs of the body trying to create stability as the disc narrows or “degenerates”). It’s also possible that there would be some narrowing in the foramen, or openings, through which nerves exit the spine. There may be some narrowing of the canal which protects the spinal cord.

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 9th, 2009 at 6:06 am and is filed under chiropractic. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.