Research on back pain uses mice to test theories on disc degeneration
Research on back pain uses mice to test theories on disc degeneration: [Messy URL]
The researchers attached a device that exerted varying degrees of pressure on the discs in each mouse’s tail. They found that chronic compression triggered an array of changes in both the structure and biological activity of the discs.
(I wonder about how well findings that relate to mice tails will map to actual human backs, however.)