Jeff Langmaid explains how cervical discs degenerate and cause chronic neck pain. Loss of disc height, inflammatory changes, and nerve ingrowth trigger pain. These changes often occur with poor posture and spinal misalignment, leading to instability and functional loss.
So with this study, they were really focusing on the degenerative changes to the cervical disc, one of the most common factors in chronic neck pain. Because when the cervical discs degenerate, there's a lot of things that happen, many of which you are very familiar with. There can be a loss of cervical lordosis, there can be reduced disc height, could be inflammatory changes, of course, modic changes, right? Nerve ingrowth into the disc, that invagination of the nerves over time causing discogenic pain, big issue. And then structural instability ultimately as well. So all of these factors can contribute in combination or in isolation to both pain and dysfunction. So the researchers point out something really, really important, which are degenerative changes in the cervical spine. They're often associated with abnormal posture and abnormal spinal alignment.
