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 ...

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