Follow-up data on patients with degenerative disease of the upper (cervical) spinal vertebrae show little or no evidence of worsening degeneration over time, according to a new study. Follow-up data ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of an artificial cervical disc from Spinal Kinetics LLC in the treatment of degenerative cervical ...

Try doing some isometric exercise but remember not to hold your breath while doing these exercises. For each exercise press 5 to 6 counts, then relax. Back pain or Backache is common due to poor ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AMSTERDAM — Workers’ compensation patients who underwent surgery for symptomatic cervical degenerative disease ...

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 ...

Despite being one of the most common spinal surgeries, anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, a type of treatment for forms of degenerative disc disease, is a major procedure that sometimes fails in ...

CHICAGO — The duration of symptoms before surgery for degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) plays a key role in the quality of the outcome, underscoring the need for increased awareness among ...

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 ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have developed a new imaging approach to more accurately assess blood flow in the spinal ...