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The Twin Spine Study: contributions to a changing view of disc degeneration.
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society - 1 Jan 2000
Battié Michele C, Videman Tapio, Kaprio Jaakko, Gibbons Laura E, Gill Kevin, Manninen Hannu, Saarela Janna, Peltonen Leena
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BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Disc degeneration was commonly viewed over much of the last century as a result of aging and "wear and tear" from mechanical insults and injuries. Thus, prevention strategies and research in lumbar degenerative changes and associated clinical conditions focused largely on mechanical factors as primary causes using an "injury model." The Twin Spine Study, a research program on the etiology and...
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