Challenging the cumulative injury model: positive effects of greater body mass on disc degeneration

Spine Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-31

  Videman, Tapio ^a,b   Gibbons, Laura E ^c   Kaprio, Jaakko ^b,d   Battié, Michele C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Body weight; Disc degeneration; Disc signal intensity; Physical loading; Twin co twin study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LIFE STYLE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL FITNESS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 73149109476     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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