2015年4月2日 · Black disc disease is the common term for the degenerative processes of intervertebral disc dehydration that correlate with imaging changes from a normal white nucleus to a black nucleus on MRI.

2023年10月25日 · Degenerative disk disease is a condition where your spinal disks break down with age and daily activity. Regular, low-impact exercise like swimming or yoga can help prevent the onset or slow...

2025年2月4日 · Degenerative disk disease (degenerative disc disease) occurs when your spinal disks break down. Unfortunately, it’s just a natural part of aging. When these disks wear out, you’ll typically experience back pain and stiffness.

Simply put, degenerative disc disease refers to symptoms of back or neck pain caused by wear-and-tear on a spinal disc. In some cases, degenerative disc disease also causes weakness, numbness, and hot, shooting pains in the arms or legs (radicular pain).

The most indicative symptom of degenerative disc disease is a low-grade, continuous pain around the degenerating disc that occasionally flares up into more severe, potentially disabling pain. See How a Disc Becomes Painful

Dark disc or black disc is a colloquial, nonstandard term used to describe a dehydrated disc. On MRI imaging, the disc loses its central high T2 signal intensity and it appears dark as a consequence of the dehydration of the nucleus.

What is Degenerative Disc Disease? Degenerative disc disease is also known as “spondylosis” as the discs wear out. As the discs lose water and wear out, they lead to abnormal alignment of the spinal joints, and osteoarthritis is the result.

Internal disc disruption associated with axial back pain but not radicular pain is a disease entity that was recognized about two decades ago as a disorder that could potentially be treated by spinal fusion.

Most people with degenerative disc disease respond well to nonsurgical treatments. Research indicates that 90% of patients report improvement in back pain and radicular leg pain within 3 months of nonsurgical treatments. 1 Donnally III CJ, Hanna A, Varacallo M. Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease. In: StatPearls.

2002年8月15日 · In this article the authors describe the clinical syndrome, magnetic resonance imaging and discography findings of pathophysiological pain generation, and the available surgical options.