From clinical safety trials to cost-effectiveness measures, here are 10 spine studies to know since March 14. 1. Cervical disc replacement is a safe option across all obesity levels compared to ...

Daniel Choi, MD, completed his 50th surgery using the prodisc C-Vivo cervical disc replacement with more than 100 implanted discs total, his practice said July 1. The milestone case was completed at ...

New technique preserves major nerves, blood vessels, and other critical structures in a hard-to-access area. In a ...

Back in 1984, “This Is Spinal Tap” received two appreciative reviews in The New York Times. While the film “does embody rock ...

Figure 1 MRI of the cervical spine after surgical fixation at the C4–C5 level. Centromedullary injury can be seen at levels C3–C6. Figure 2 CT abdomen showing distended gallbladder with marked ...

Imaging of the Cervical Spine and Its Role in Clinical Decision Making R. Bryan Murphy, BS, S. Craig Humphreys, MD, Desmond L. Fisher, MD, Scott D. Hodges, DO, Jason C. Eck, MS Disclosures ...

Objectives Traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injury produce neurodegeneration across the entire neuraxis. However, the spatiotemporal dynamics of spinal cord grey and white matter ...

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 ...

Introduction Lumbar spinal ultrasonography is an important tool used by pain physicians and anaesthesiologists to perform pain-related scanning, interventional treatments and anaesthesia in clinical ...

This breakthrough, achieved through a detailed analysis of simultaneous brain and cervical spinal cord functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, provides unprecedented insights into how the ...

Cervical spinal alignment is most commonly lordotic, although a range of alignments may be considered normal, depending on the patient’s age and full-body posture.