Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently shared updates on his recovery from painful neck surgery, revealing the cause behind his ...

in which the intervertebral disc is removed and the remaining vertebral bones are fused to create more space in the spinal canal. This procedure is known as an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion ...

Surgical options aim to relieve pressure on the spinal cord and provide stability to the neck. Common procedures are posterior cervical laminectomy, discectomy and fusion, or corpectomy.

[6,7,8,9,10,11] Trends in spinal surgery towards less invasive ... [12,13,14,15,16] Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with plating (ACDF+P) is one of the most common spinal and neurosurgical ...

surgery is indicated in cases that fail to respond to conservative treatment. Surgical approaches to the cervical spine are usually anterior or posterior. Currently, anterior cervical discectomy is ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted two 510 (k) clearances for implants which restore the integrity of ...

My neck surgery destroyed my life ... Some of the common types of neck surgeries are: Cervical spinal fusion Anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion (ACDF) Laminoplasty Artificial disk replacement ...

Medically reviewed by David Ozeri, MDNeck arthritis (also known as neck osteoarthritis or cervical spondylosis) is the ...

He is getting around better, but it looks like after the first of the year, he is looking at surgery to fuse his C3 and C4 vertebrae. He has a spot on his spinal cord that is not protected if ...

Recently, Dr. J. Alex Sielatycki, a fellowship-trained spine surgeon at Pioneers Medical Center (PMC) in Meeker, started ...