Surgery for spinal stenosis of the neck aims to relieve compression and improve symptoms. Spinal stenosis is a compression of nerves in the spine. The condition most commonly affects the lumbar spine, ...
More than 153,000 cervical spine procedures have been added to the American Spine Registry from 2015 to 2024, and the majority of them were anterior cervical discectomy and fusions, according to the ...
Implanet’s Swingo anterior cervical cage earned the FDA’s 510(k) clearance, according to a March 3 news release. The Swingo cage range includes multiple implant sizes and is made with 3D printing ...
UC San Diego Health has made medical history by performing the world’s first anterior cervical spine surgery using a fully personalized implant. Conducted in July 2025, the procedure represents a leap ...
Barghavan Mohankumar, Brandon Kim, and Brandon Whitehead—all 17-year-old juniors at North Gwinnett High School—believe their computer-aided design, or CAD, models and prototype could spark a medical ...
The cervical spine is incredibly complex. That’s why Brain and Spine Surgeons of NY (BSSNY) has opened a Cervical Spine Center in White Plains, N.Y. — to offer patients the opportunity to consult with ...
Cervical myelopathy and cervical radiculopathy are neurologic conditions. They both originate in the neck and cause a loss of function. Cervical myelopathy is caused by compression of the spinal cord ...
Complications were significantly associated with low height, high-dose prednisolone use, and progression of cervical spine lesions in early disease stages of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A small study ...
Ordinarily, you might not think too much about your spinal cord, since it’s protected by your spinal canal. But imagine what might happen if your spinal canal began to narrow around your spinal cord.
Use of GLP-1 agonists after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion may reduce the rates of pseudoarthrosis, dysphagia, ...