Don't run to for disc pain.Low back pain affects almost everyone. Sometimes back pain originates from herniated herniated /her·ni·at·ed/ (her´ne-at?ed) protruding like a hernia; enclosed in a hernia. her·ni·at·ed adj. or bulging spinal discs impinging on nerves. While there are 300,000 disc repairs performed annually in the United States, some discs heal on their own. To learn more about why this happens, researchers studied key interactions between macrophages Macrophages White blood cells whose job is to destroy invading microorganisms. Listeria monocytogenes avoids being killed and can multiply within the macrophage. (one of the clean-up cells in the body) and enzymes necessary for the process. Without certain enzymes (matrilysin and stromelysin) the macrophage macrophage /mac·ro·phage/ (mak´ro-faj) any of the large, mononuclear, highly phagocytic cells derived from monocytes that occur in the walls of blood vessels (adventitial cells) and in loose connective tissue (histiocytes, phagocytic cells cannot do their work. More research in this area may lead to treatment that can accelerate the process of non-surgical healing of the herniated disc. For the millions of "slipped discs" out there, that would be very good news indeed. (Journal of Clinical Investigation The Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI or J Clin Invest) is a leading biomedical journal, which is radically different from many of its peers in having a high impact factor (in 2006, 15.754) and offering all its contents entirely free. , 2000, Vol. 105, No. 2, pp. 143-150; 133-141) |
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