the compression and tensile forces that occur to an increased extent as a result of the instability , lead not only to a remodelling of the vertebral bodies , but also to the formation of spondylotic osteophytes at the edges of the vertebrae and , as a result of periosteal stimulation , to the development of cellular hyaline cartilage , which fills the intervertebral spaces .
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vertebrae