When physical therapy and drugs fail to relieve back or neck pain, patients often turn to spinal fusion surgery as a last resort, but two new studies show that in certain situations, especially when ...

Spine surgeons are reporting that artificial disc replacement works as well and often better than spinal fusion surgery. The two procedures are performed on patients with damaged discs in the neck.

When your neck hurts, really hurts, it has a way of affecting your entire life. When your neck hurts, really hurts, it has a way of affecting your entire life. “The pain was constant.” “A sharp pain.” ...

Synergy Spine Solutions has received premarket approval (PMA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Synergy ...

Spine surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and other U.S. centers are reporting that artificial disc replacement works as well and often better than spinal fusion surgery.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Early results from the first U.S. investigational device exemption trial investigating cervical total disc ...

The motion-sparing advantages offered by a semiconstrained total disc prosthesis make it a promising alternative to discectomy and fusion for treating cervical spondylosis and degenerative disc ...

SAN DIEGO-- 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, according to the results of ...

DEBORAH: AND TONIGHT’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR, A LOOK AT ARTIFICIAL DISC REPLACEMENT SURGERY. IT CAN CAUSE TERRIBLE PAIN AND NERVE PAIN GOING DOWN THE ARM. MERCY MEDICAL CENTER DOCTOR CHARLES EDWARDS II, SAYS ...

An artificial disc replacement in the neck replaces a diseased or damaged disc with a specialized implant that tries to preserve motion. This procedure is called an artificial cervical disc ...