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 ...

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 ...

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 Cheryl Trevithick was dealing with chronic neck pain from a disc herniation, her husband learned about a solution that made perfect sense to his engineering-wired brain: cervical disc replacement ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Patients with 2-level symptomatic cervical disc degeneration fare better in terms of future secondary surgeries when their discs are replaced rather than fused, a new study shows. "We ...

CHICAGO — Results presented here showed a significantly greater overall clinical success rate with cervical disc replacement in patients with cervical disc disease compared with anterior cervical ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo., Oct. 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ZimVie Inc. (ZIMV), a global life sciences leader in the dental and spine markets, today announced that the first patient in the United States has ...

X Japan plans are a bit in flux at the moment, as the band's drummer Yoshiki is planning to undergo emergency cervical artificial disc replacement surgery on May 16 in Los Angeles. That has led to a ...