Study design: Case report of a 68-year-old male who sustained cervical trauma following a bodysurfing accident. Objective: To describe the pathology of a relatively uncommon mechanism of injury ...

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 ...

HONG KONG, March 23 -- Replacement of degenerative discs in the cervical spine with cadaver allografts shows early promise as an alternative to fusion or artificial discs, found researchers here. In ...

When you have pain in your neck or upper back that you’ve never felt before, you might have a herniated cervical disk. While it might sound worrisome, it is not an uncommon health problem as you age.

Hayes et al 1 observed, among other pathologies, a posterior C3/4 disc protrusion in a post-mortem study of a fatal cervical hyperextension injury in a 60-year-old man with plain radiographic evidence ...

The California Technology Assessment Forum (CTAF) has been asked to review the scientific literature on the safety and efficacy of artificial spinal disc replacement for the treatment of neck pain ...