A systematic review and meta-analysis indicated that facet tropism is associated with lumbar disc herniation and degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis, suggesting that variations in facet joint ...

Osteoarthritis is a specific type of arthropathy, also known as arthrosis, which is a non-inflammatory, degenerative type of arthritis Pain is the main symptom of facet arthropathy. The pain is ...

The main causes of facet hypertrophy include spinal degeneration, synovial inflammation, and joint instability or injury.

Medial Branch: Nerves that innervate the facet joints, playing a key role in transmitting pain signals from these joints. Osteoarthritis (OA): A degenerative joint disease characterized by the ...

[8] Degenerative changes of both the facet joints and the intervertebral disk cause the slip, which is rarely more than a grade I slip. Sagittal orientation of the facet joints and facet tropism ...