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Spondylosis
Spondylosis
- Joints are the parts of your body where your bones meet. Joints allow the bones of your skeleton to move. Joints include:
- Shoulders
- Hips
- Elbows
- Knees
Causes
- The spine helps give the body structure and supports most of its weight. It also carries and protects almost all of the main nerve branches that run from the brain.
- The spine curved, not straight, and the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar parts of the spine contain 24 bones known as vertebrae.
- Between these vertebrae are joints that allow the spine to move flexibly. These are called the facet joints.
- Also, soft, rubbery tissue called intervertebral discs separate the vertebrae. These consist of cartilage endplates and a tough exterior, the annulus fibrosus, surrounding an inner core, the nucleus pulposus.