spondylosis

Question 1

What is it?

Answer 1

Applied non specifically to any and all degenerative conditions affecting the disks, vertebral bodies or lumbar spine

Question 2

Anatomy

Answer 2

Initiates from the intervertebral discs, causing progressive biochemical and structural changes to take l,ace- modification in the physical properties of elasticity and mechanical resistance
Disc lesions cause pathological changes in the vertebral bodies, where osteophytes appear

Question 3

Clinical Presentation

Answer 3

Lower back pain
Leg pain
Sometimes numbness and motor weakness to lower extremities