SAN DIEGO — In results of a pilot study of high-resolution diffusion tensor imaging, investigators from Salt Lake City reported that it provided more thorough information about the status of the ...

Cervical myelopathy is a condition that happens when the spinal cord in the neck is compressed or squeezed. There are many things that can cause this, but one of the most common is cervical ...

Some patients may find their pain gets worse with exercise. This can happen with radicular pain, serious pathology, or in older people with spondylotic changes affecting multiple sites. If this ...

The most common cause of nontraumatic spinal cord dysfunction is cervical spondylosis. While the treatment of choice is surgical decompression, items on the differential diagnosis such as ...

November 15, 2011 (Chicago, Illinois) — Surgical treatment appears to be an effective treatment for 74% of patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM), and can even improve the spine ...

(HealthDay)—For patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM), preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signal changes are predictive of baseline neurologic status and postoperative ...