There are several common other potential sources and causes of back pain these include spinal disc herniation and degenerative disc disease or isthmic spondylolisthesis, osteoarthritis ( degenerative joint disease ) and lumbar spinal stenosis, trauma, cancer, infection, fractures, and inflammatory disease.
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The Agoura Hills resident, who hung up his skates after a fond farewell in April, has signed on as a point man for the education of North Americans on the degenerative joint disease more often associated with people twice his age.
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It was partly because of the publication in 1997 of a popular book called " The Arthritis Cure, " and the way it triggered an avalanche of interest in glucosamine-chondroitin among America's 20 million sufferers of the degenerative joint disease called osteoarthritis.