Severe disc degeneration is most likely to be found in the middle of the cervical spine, he said, at C5-6, and it typically progresses from that level to contiguous levels, and C7-T1 and C2-3 were ...

The neck and arm pain caused by degenerative cervical (neck) disc disease may be eliminated by replacing the problem disc with a metal-on-metal artificial disc, said Loyola University Health ...

CTAF Treatment of Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease The ideal treatment of compressive cervical radiculopathy has been debated. Some patients will improve without any specific treatment. [2, 3] ...

Conn., is scheduled to undergo surgery Monday to treat spinal stenosis, but says she expects to return to Washington when ...

Use of an artificial cervical disc from Spinal Kinetics LLC in the treatment of degenerative cervical radiculopathy was safe, effective and noninferior compared with anterior cervical discectomy ...

Cervical disc degeneration: Degeneration of the cervical disc is very microscopic in scale as the cervical discs are approximately the size of a dime to a quarter and not much thicker than this ...

Longer follow-up of patients with the Mobi-C cervical disc show maintenance of scores for pain, neck disability, and neurologic status, with no worsening of radiographic adjacent segment degeneration.

Cervical disc degeneration is a common cause of neck and arm pain that can greatly impact quality of life. The disc is a flexible material between the vertebrae that holds the bones together while ...

As a result, once a disc is injured, it may continue to deteriorate. Studies using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) show that nearly everyone over age 60 has at least some disc degeneration.

The M6-C artificial cervical disc received CE Mark approval for distribution in the European Union and other international geographies in 2006 and there have been more than 45,000 implants of the ...