Discogenic Pain Relief by Re-Establishing Fluid Exchange between Disc and Circulation

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Background: Discs are avascular. Oxygen and nutrients are diffused from capillaries in endplates into thick discs. Calcified layers begin to fortify the cartilaginous endplates around age 16,

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