Adding to the already length list of reasons not to smoke, researchers have connected smoking to worsening degenerative disc disease in the cervical spine, according to research presented this week at ...

Usually the first step is conservative treatment. Patients who have radicular symptoms but who do not have weakness or myelopathy can be treated conservatively. Conservative treatment can include ...

The neck and arm pain caused by degenerative cervical (neck) disc disease may be eliminated by replacing the problem disc with a metal-on-metal artificial disc, said Loyola University Health System ...

Despite being one of the most common spinal surgeries, anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, a type of treatment for forms of degenerative disc disease, is a major procedure that sometimes fails in ...

"You are at risk of becoming a quadriplegic." Imagine hearing these words when your only symptoms prior to that day were not much more than a stiff neck? That's exactly what happened to 32-year-old ...

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists (AAOMPT) has released a position statement opposing "degenerative disc disease" as a diagnostic term for the cause of neck and back pain.

This article was written for our sponsor, Dr. Sameer Mathur, Orthopedic Surgeon. Approximately 1.1 million patients in the United States suffer from symptomatic cervical disc disease each year. This ...