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

Symptoms include: Facet arthropathy is a type of degenerative arthritis that causes progressive damage to the spine. Spinal osteoarthritis (also known as spondylosis) is the most common cause ...

Background The mechanisms leading to new bone formation and ankylosis in zygapophyseal joints of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are not well understood ... analysis of bone and cartilage ...

h.u-tokyo.ac.jp Objectives: Although lumbar spondylosis is a major cause of low back pain and disability in elderly people, few epidemiological studies have been performed. The prevalence of ...