Servicemembers suffer high rates of back pain. Could synthetic discs being tested on

[The Patriot]

Servicemembers suffer high rates of back pain. Could synthetic discs being tested on goats help?

03-11-2019 01:48 AM

Lower-back pain was the world's leading cause of disability in 2017. Researchers have implanted replacement discs made from a combination of synthetic materials and living cells only in rats and goats, but they appear to behave much like the real thing.


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