Hayes et al 1 observed, among other pathologies, a posterior C3/4 disc protrusion in a post-mortem study of a fatal cervical hyperextension injury in a 60-year-old man with plain radiographic evidence ...

Usually the first step is conservative treatment. Patients who have radicular symptoms but who do not have weakness or myelopathy can be treated conservatively. Conservative treatment can include ...

The degeneration of cervical discs commonly follows a contiguous pattern, rather than a pattern of skipped level disc degeneration, based on results of a recently presented cross-sectional imaging ...

The FDA recently approved the Medtronic Prestige LP Cervical System for treating degenerative disc disease at two adjacent vertebral levels (between C3 and C7). The device is said to be Medtronic’s ...

AUDUBON, Pa., Oct. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Globus Medical, Inc. (NYSE: GMED), a leading musculoskeletal solutions company, presented five-year outcomes from the NuVasive Simplify Cervical Disc ...

HONG KONG, March 23 -- Replacement of degenerative discs in the cervical spine with cadaver allografts shows early promise as an alternative to fusion or artificial discs, found researchers here. In ...

When you have pain in your neck or upper back that you’ve never felt before, you might have a herniated cervical disk. While it might sound worrisome, it is not an uncommon health problem as you age.

Adding to the already length list of reasons not to smoke, researchers have connected smoking to worsening degenerative disc disease in the cervical spine, according to research presented this week at ...

Cervical artificial disc replacement (ADR) has transformed the way healthcare professionals treat degenerative disc disease and other spinal conditions. Unlike traditional spinal fusion, ADR preserves ...