Even though disc implantation has a ways to go before becoming a run-of-the-mill procedure, if it makes it there at all, Iatridis says there are plenty of reasons for people with spine pain to be ...

Our spine is a mechanical structure that supports our body when standing and sitting and allows us to bend, stoop, squat, twist and turn. ... Discs: Your spine’s shock absorbers.

More than half (52 percent) of CybroCell-treated discs showed either increased disc height or no change (a clinically relevant outcome) versus only 38 percent of control discs.