Specialists may recommend spinal fusion for your back or neck if: Nonsurgical treatments—such as physical therapy, heat, medication, steroid injections, or cortisone injections—have not been effective ...

Three-level cervical fusion can help treat various neck conditions, many of which occur due to spinal degeneration. It fuses three vertebrae in the cervical spine.

Discectomy with cervical fusion can often help relieve the pain of spinal disc disease. The only caveat is that after the surgery, many people find that they lose some degree of movement in their ...

In 2019, the spine committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies recommended posterior surgical techniques be used when three or more levels are involved. To optimize the chances ...

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.

ACDF surgery—During this type of spinal fusion, a spine surgeon removes the problematic bone or disc pieces. Then they join (fuse) your spinal bones where the herniated disc was. They make an incision ...

After a jolt of intense pain rippled down his neck, he underwent spinal fusion. But that ultimately didn’t treat his pain.

However, Dr. Light recently performed the first neck fusion reversal in the United States. In a five-hour surgery, Dr. Light cut and separated the fusion at the point where the donor bone met the ...