Every time you bend your neck and for every inch you bend, it can double or triple the load on the cervical spine. The nerves ...

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of the patient's cervical and thoracic spine was obtained which revealed a syrinx (Figure 2). The syrinx was decompressed by a neurosurgeon, and the ...

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Background Axial symptoms (AS) represent one of the primary complications after cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM ... spondylosis” OR “cervical spinal cord compression” OR “cervical cord ...

Knowing a patient's symptoms helps radiologists in lumbar spine MRI interpretation and diagnosis, according to a study published in Radiology. MRI is the most important imaging exam in patients ...

He specializes in degenerative, deformity, and trauma-related diseases of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbosacral spine. Dr. Hughes employs innovative, less invasive approaches to the spine whenever ...

When you understand biomechanically the anatomical segment, the cervical and lumbar spine, it makes sense that you can preserve motion ... as well as having another reliable source of information on ...

The condition can occur in the cervical spine (neck), thoracic spine (mid back) or the lumbar spine (lower back). Cervical and lumbar stenosis are the most common forms, with lumbar spinal stenosis ...

This is usually done by fusing the bone together. Surgery frequently involves a posterior (back of the neck incision) cervical fusion and mending the spinal bones together using small metal screws and ...

Don't overextend at the neck. Rather, your head should be an extension of your spine. Review the instructions below to get more specific about the direction in which you should move your head.