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Fig. 5

From: ABCs of the degenerative spine

Fig. 5

Stress distribution in a normal segment and in a segment with nucleous pulposus degeneration. (a) A schematic illustration of the normal balanced distribution of the loads in a disc. (b) In nucleus pulposus degeneration intradiscal pressure drops and the annulus fibrosus acts like a fibrous solid to resist compression directly

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