Schmorl’s nodes are a type of herniated disk that can affect the spine. They occur when tissue inside the disks slips out and pushes up or down into adjacent vertebrae. They are not cancerous and ...

“We confirmed that, overall, the presence of endplate lesions was associated with frequent back pain. Particularly, large endplate lesions were associated with both occasional and frequent back pain,” ...

Disc degeneration alone was not found to have much impact on lower back pain; however, researchers found disc degeneration was highly associated with low back pain when combined with endplate signal ...