BMJ1mon
A pilot study of the prevalence of lumbar disc degeneration in elite athletes with lower back pain at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite athletes as compared with published literature of changes seen in non-athletes—that is, normal population.
BMJ6y
Lumbar intervertebral disk degeneration in Japanese male volleyball players belonging to the national team
Objective To identify the reason of the lower back pain, a detailed MRI analysis of disk degeneration (DD ... of five intervertebral disks (L1/2 to L5/S1) on MRI using Pfirrmann's classification.