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METHODS OF MEASURING THE PRESSURE OF THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC
CHARLES K. PETTER
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Senior Resident Physician, Glen Lake Sanatorium
The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.  1933; 15:365-368 
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Abstract

1. A very definite expansion of the interavertebral disc occurs upon its removal from the body, with further expansion when the annulus fibrosis is sectioned, the average being one and eight-hundredths millimeters.

2. An appreciable amount of pressure is required to reduce this expansion, the average being thirty and two-tenths pounds.

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