Learn the critical warning signs that distinguish between ordinary neck pain and potentially serious conditions requiring ...

Our body has a spinal cord where bundles of nerves pass from the brain to the lower back. When the cervical spine (the neck ...

Karla Flores had a tumor strangling her spinal cord near the base of her skull. Doctors weighed whether they should attempt a ...

Objectives Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) involves extrinsic spinal cord compression causing tissue injury and neurological dysfunction. Asymptomatic spinal cord compression (ASCC) is more ...

If a spinal nerve root is being irritated or pinched in the cervical (upper) spine, symptoms may include pain in the neck or between the shoulder blades that spreads down the arm into the hand or ...

You might think of an annular fissure as a loss of integrity or a tear in the outer borders of the spinal disc. An annular fissure can become painful if it reaches the outermost fibers of the annulus, ...