Cervical myelopathy results from compression of the spinal cord in the neck (cervical area of the spine). Symptoms of cervical myelopathy may include problems with fine motor skills, pain or stiffness ...

Sneezing is the body’s natural way to remove irritants from the nose; however, holding back a sneeze might be harmful for our ...

The Connecticut legislature has passed several important amendments to the Workers’ Compensation Act that will affect how ...

But some injuries or degenerative conditions of the neck (the cervical portion of the spine) don't necessarily cause neck pain but, rather, lead to sensations in other parts of the body. One such ...

kyphosis can occur above the fusion due to the stress between the fused and the non-fused parts of the spine. This is a difficult problem that surgeons have yet to solve in a comprehensive manner. In ...

Spinal deformities refer to abnormal curvatures or malformations of the spine that can affect its shape structure and function Scroll down to learn why these deformities are rising in adolescents ...

In addition to bundling imaging with the surgical codes, the new codes for 2015 also changed sacral vertebroplasty from Category III level codes to Category I code 22511, and cervical vertebroplasty ...

The nonlinear three-dimensional FE model of the C2–C7 cervical spine was developed based on the CT images of a patient who underwent ACDF with Zero-P VA (Synthes, Oberdorf, Switzerland) interbody cage ...

Cervical vertebral bone age was evaluated using the method described by Mito and colleagues in 2002. Bone age was assessed by the Tanner-Whitehouse (TW3) method and was used as a gold standard to ...

The pain aggravated with tilting the head to an opposite direction. Plain X-ray of the cervical spine was unremarkable and an MRI of the cervical spine revealed a normal sagittal profile but axial ...

The spine is divided into 4 areas: Cervical spine. The first 7 vertebrae ... As this happens, the spongy disk (which is located between the bony parts of the spine and acts as a “shock absorber”) ...