It is a common cause of neck pain and is more common in elderly patients. Up to 26% percent of people over the age of 64 may have cervical stenosis despite not having any symptoms. The spinal cord is ...

Neural foraminal stenosis can occur at any spinal cord level, but it’s most common in the lumbar spine and least common in the thoracic spine. Your cervical (neck) spine is the upper area of the ...

According to Dr Muttha, the cervical spine is key for mobility and neurological function, so loss of neck movement can indicate a spinal cord injury. "If the spinal cord is injured, nerve signals ...

Radiculopathy can occur in the neck ... of radiculopathy include spinal trauma, rheumatoid arthritis, prior spine surgery and bone diseases. Often a history of symptoms and physical exam may lead to ...

Characterized by back, leg and neck pain, spinal stenosis ... there is greater risk of spinal cord compression with cervical stenosis since the spinal cord cannot move as freely as in the cervical ...

The threshold for spinal injury of ... would usually not cause neck damage and would be even less likely to cause chronic symptoms. The pathophysiology of cervical disk disease is the same as ...

Degenerative cervical myelopathy ... and/or cervical stenosis.4 A recent review of the risk factors for the development of DCM reported that long-term participation in contact sports may be associated ...

Boston Spine Surgery offers comprehensive spine care for a full range of spinal conditions, specializing in degenerative conditions of the neck ... cervical myelopathy, spinal stenosis and ...

To assess the current state of data collection and subsequent analysis of serious neck injuries ... 9 had incomplete neurological injury and 11 had cervical column injury without spinal cord damage.