Comment by eudamoniac
2 days ago
It's much the same with degenerative changes in the spine. Almost every adult will have such changes and they do not seem to correlate with symptoms. Everyone's back is screwed up and only some people get back pain, and only sometimes in the same areas as the screwed up areas.
> Everyone's back is screwed up
its bad framing to label this as "degenerative" and "screwed up" as nowadays we learn that there are probably more age-related. As you say, they correlate very poorly with pain.