Although many patients undergo surgery for lumbar disc herniation, symptoms of disk herniation often improve with observation alone. These researchers conducted both a randomized trial of ...

[4] The disc is removed anteriorly; discs that are herniated either laterally ... An important and limiting complication of cervical spine fusion surgery is the development of DDD in adjacent ...

These can all be caused by a herniated disc ... Anterior. Cervical means in the neck. Discectomy means are actually removing all the disc away from the nerve. And the fusion means they’re ...

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 ...