Nature

Retropulsion of intervertebral discs associated with traumatic hyperextension of the cervical spine and absence of vertebral fracture: an uncommon mechanism of spinal cord injury

Study design: Case report of a 68-year-old male who sustained cervical trauma following a bodysurfing accident. Objective: To describe the pathology of a relatively uncommon mechanism of injury ...
Medscape

Two-Level Disc Replacement Reduces Reoperation vs Fusion

SAN FRANCISCO — Patients with 2-level symptomatic cervical disc degeneration fare better in terms of future secondary surgeries when their discs are replaced rather than fused, a new study shows. "We ...
Medscape

Artificial Disc Replacement for Degenerative Disc Disease of the Cervical Spine: A Technology Assessment

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 ...
Business Wire

Orthofix Announces First Patient Implant in the M6-C Artificial Cervical Disc Two-Level IDE Study

LEWISVILLE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orthofix Medical Inc. (NASDAQ:OFIX), a global medical device company with a spine and orthopedics focus, today announced the first patient implant in a U.S. Food ...
The Korea Herald

Cervical myelopathy hard to detect

A 65-year-old lady suffered walking difficulties for about five months. She visited five hospitals but was not diagnosed with any specific disease. Her symptoms only continued to get worse and finally ...
Nature

Retropulsion of intervertebral discs associated with traumatic hyperextension of the cervical spine and absence of vertebral fracture: an uncommon mechanism of spinal cord injury

Hayes et al 1 observed, among other pathologies, a posterior C3/4 disc protrusion in a post-mortem study of a fatal cervical hyperextension injury in a 60-year-old man with plain radiographic evidence ...