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 ...

LOUISVILLE (WAVE)-- Doctors say a new artificial cervical disc is the most amazing thing that's happened for neck surgery in decades. Not only is the new device is improving lives, it also has the ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- John Larsen is thankful to be healthy and back on the job again, answering the call for help as a Henrico firefighter. Larsen, 35, recently returned to work after having surgery for a ...

UCSF Spine Center surgeons are conducting a clinical trial to investigate the safety and effectiveness of an implant that replaces damaged discs in the neck. The trial will compare the implant to ...

For decades, anterior cervical discectomy fusion has been the gold-standard surgery to relieve pain from a herniated disc in the neck, but a new procedure is delivering better outcomes and reducing ...

Surgery to remove multiple herniated or degenerated discs in the neck, a procedure known as anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), can be safely performed in an outpatient setting in select ...

SAN DIEGO — Improvements were sustained at 10 years for patients treated with the Mobi-C cervical disc in the trial that led to its approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2013, a new ...

TA Criterion 1: The technology must have final approval from the appropriate government regulatory bodies. The Prestige® Cervical Disc (Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Memphis, TN) received FDA Premarket ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of an artificial cervical disc from Spinal Kinetics LLC in the treatment of degenerative cervical ...

A cervical foraminotomy is a procedure that decompresses a nerve in the neck. A spine surgeon removes bone or disc pieces that are pressing on the nerves that go from your neck to your arm. The ...