Healing of a painful intervertebral disc should not be confused with reversing disc degeneration: Implications for physical therapies for discogenic back pain

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 961-971

  Adams, Michael A ^a   Stefanakis, Manos ^a   Dolan, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Degeneration; Healing; Intervertebral disc; Pain; Review; Therapy

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); METABOLITES; PHYSICAL THERAPY; REVIEWS;

DEGENERATION; HEALING; INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS; PAIN; THERAPY;

HEALTH;

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; PROTEOGLYCAN;

AGING; ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; BACKACHE; CELL DENSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; DISCOGENIC BACK PAIN; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALING; HERITABILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INHERITANCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC HEALING; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METABOLITE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL NERVE; SPINAL PAIN; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INJURY; STRETCHING EXERCISE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERTEBRA BODY;

EID: 78650180893     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2010.07.016     Document Type: Review

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