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Women's Spines Are Made to Cope with Pregnancy
in Next Nine Months, on December 13, 2007
...d spinal curve ?
Exaggerating the curve in the lower back can place more stress on the spine: vertebrae are more likely to slip against each other, leading to back pain or fractures. Whitcome an...
Why Pregnant Women Don't Topple Over
in Well Woman Blog, on December 12, 2007
...cal differences in male and female backs that until now had gone unnoticed: One lower lumbar vertebra is wedged-shaped in women and more square in men; and a key hip joint is 14 percent larger ...
Osteoporosis Compression
in Well Woman Blog, on July 17, 2007
...he most common type of fracture affecting the spine . A compression fracture of a spine bone (vertebra) causes the bone to collapse in height.
Compression fractures are commonly the result of ...
Using Stem Cells to Treat Lower Back Pain Due to Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 28, 2006
... Most cases of lower back pain are due to intervertebral disc degeneration, wherein the soft tissue separating the vertebrae of the spine become dry and inflexible. Current treatment options ...
Does vertebroplasty work?
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 29, 2005
...ffect.
And some research hints that the procedure may be harmful in the long run, because when one vertebra is shored up, adjacent ones may be more likely to break.
But vertebroplasty and a similar ...