Vahe Zohrabian
Low back pain (LBP) is a leading cause of disability worldwide.1 The most common cause is mechanical, and although most individuals recover in a short amount of time with minimal intervention, recurrences are common, and some will even go on to experience “chronic” pain, or pain lasting longer than 3 months. It is … more »
Osamu Togao
Akio Hiwatashi
Degeneration of intervertebral discs (IVDs) is one of the leading causes of low back pain.1 Surgical treatment has been performed in severe IVD degeneration; however, early-stage IVD degeneration could be treated with regenerative medicine … more »
Aseem Sharma
As a clinical neuroradiologist exposed to many MR scans of the lumbar spine, I have always found it intriguing that despite a number of predispositions affecting any given patient’s propensity to develop disc degeneration, individual discs within that patient often demonstrate marked variation in the extent of degeneration. My subsequent research into … more »
Mark Hancock
The clinical importance of imaging findings in people with low back pain remains unclear and controversial. This is, in part, due to most of the existing research being cross-sectional. The few longitudinal studies that have been conducted typically only perform imaging once at baseline, then follow up with patients for clinical outcomes, … more »
Jason Talbott
William Dillon
The challenge of identifying the source of pain in patients with both acute and chronic low back pain is well known and motivates our team’s work.1 Specifically, our study focused on defining improved imaging biomarkers for facetogenic … more »