An important and limiting complication of cervical spine fusion surgery is the development ... advantage of a reduced risk of adjacent segment degeneration. Thus, the question is how the outcomes ...

NASS’s 2024 Research Funding Program announced grants and traveling fellowships winners totaling $159,059 this year.

This additional weight puts added pressure on our already over worked spine and often times further accelerates the degeneration ... the normal curvatures of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar ...

Adding a six-week course of chemotherapy to the standard course of treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer resulted in a significant increase in survival rates, a new study shows.

A key to their investigation was to elucidate the critical involvement of microglia in axonal degeneration post-spinal cord axon injury. Microglia are primary immune cells in the central nervous ...

Quitting smoking enhances blood flow and aids tissue repair, reducing back pain and spinal degeneration. Meanwhile, a study published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases reported that smoking ...

Giving people with cervical cancer a short course of chemotherapy before radiation therapy dramatically improves survival according to the results of a new clinical trial. The data published in ...

The forward head posture puts significant strain on the cervical spine, causing the muscles ... Over time, this can lead to muscle imbalances, joint degeneration, and even disc bulges or herniated ...

Cervical screening is available to anyone with a cervix between the ages of 25 to 64 in the UK. The cervical screening test can identify people with HPV infection and facilitates the identification of ...

Degenerative spine diseases (DSDs), particularly those affecting the intervertebral discs, cervical ... is clear that smoking accelerates spinal degeneration, impairs recovery, and increases ...