Updated FACET report provides two-year follow-up data. Patients with cervical radiculopathy have pain, sensory, and/or motor deficits caused by spinal degenerative nerve root compression.

Your spine specialist will make a treatment recommendation based on your symptoms and imaging results. If you have cervical myelopathy, you will likely need spinal decompression surgery. About 90 ...

Cervical radiculopathy is a condition caused by a pinched nerve in your neck. It happens when your cervical spinal cord or nerve roots arising from it become compressed by the cervical vertebrae ...

To date, Roy-Camille et al [4] have the largest reported clinical series of posterior cervical plating. In a retrospective review of 221 injuries of the lower cervical spine, posterior plate ...

Radiculopathy is the pinching of a nerve root (where nerves join/leave the spinal column). Pinching of the nerve roots can cause pain and numbness in areas controlled by that nerve. Symptoms of nerve ...

A soft cervical collar can help minimize the amount of movement in the neck and thus reduce irritation of the nerve root. However, a person should not wear a cervical collar for more than 2 weeks ...

The Lancet article describes a case series of 16 patients with early (<18 months post-injury) cervical spinal cord injury of motor level C5 and below who underwent single or multiple nerve ...

With comparable outcomes at 2 years, posterior cervical foraminotomy may be an effective alternative to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion for patients with cervical radiculopathy, according ...

Cervical pain, medically known as cervicalgia, refers to pain in the neck or spine below the head. It can cause problems involving stiffness, reduced motion, muscle spasms, and numbness, affecting ...

Tam is specifically addressing cervical radiculopathy, one of the most common causes of a pinched nerve in your neck. He explains that the cervical spine is the portion of your spine that make up ...