In anterior cervical surgery, it is usually not necessary or desirable to remove the posterior longitudinal ligament. Retention of the ligament helps prevent overdistraction of the disc space by ...
“Recovering from neck surgery. Hurts a lot ... "I basically crushed my C5-C6 disc and had to have two surgeries to remove part of it." Neck pain is often a common condition many of us have.
Surgery is typically indicated when six months of conservative therapy have not been successful, if there is a neurologic deficit attributable to the cervical disc disease or when the symptoms ...
My neck surgery destroyed my life ... I just had an ACDF myself for a protruding disc. Very painful, but the pain quickly faded. I am now back to gold, as you will soon be too!” ...
A cervical intervertebral disc can prolapse (hernia or rupture) asymptomatically or may produce neck pain, nerve root compression (radiculopathy) or spinal cord compression (myelopathy). Surgery is ...