TY - JOUR AU - Nan Li AU - Jianze Liu AU - Kebin Cheng AU - Luxin Lou AU - Yushuang Zhang AU - Kai Yan AU - Xianglong Li AU - Fangfang Duan AU - Ning Zhang AU - Da He AU - Jiangzhen Guo AU - Chunjing Tao PY - 2025 DA - 2025/09/18 TI - Is Chronic Neck Pain Associated With Disc Degeneration in The Young Population? A Perspective From The Modified Grading System on Cervical Disc Degeneration JO - Japan Journal of Research VL - 6 IS - 12 AB - In order to investigate whether the chronic neck pain is associated with cervical disc degeneration, a case-control study was carried out. To facilitate statistical analysis, it is necessary to quantify the degree of cervical intervertebral disc degeneration using a grading system. Therefore, a modified grading system for cervical disc degeneration was proposed based on cervical magnetic resonance image (MRI). Several doctors were invited to review the images on two separate occasions and classify the cervical disc degeneration grades of all subjects according to the new grading method. The intra-observer agreement for this new grading system was excellent (K>0.8), and the inter-observer agreement was substantial (K>0.6). There was no significant difference in the distribution of cervical disc degeneration grades between the two groups (P=0.863>0.05). The new cervical disc degeneration grading system demonstrates excellent reliability and suggests there is no correlation between the occurrence of CNP and disc degeneration. SN - 2690-8077 UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.33425/2690-8077.1215 DO - 10.33425/2690-8077.1215