Jeff Langmaid describes a study comparing what drives cervical spine degeneration. The researchers hypothesized age would matter more than the spine's physical structure. They were right: age proved a stronger predictor of degeneration than morphology.
The researchers wanted to put several pieces together in one cohort, a lot of what we just described, looking at things like age, sex, degenerative severity, morphology, clinical presentation, pain intensity, patient-reported outcomes. And their hypothesis was, was specific. They expected age to have a stronger relationship with degenerative changes than static cervical morphology. And that's basically what they found.
