Today, we are doing a cervical artificial disc replacement ... and we're going to decompress his spinal cord and nerves at this level. We're at the C6, C7 level at this point.

Huge, longitudinal study, with data from 1,626 cervical total disc replacement (TDR) patients from Texas Back.

A cervical intervertebral disc can prolapse (hernia or rupture) asymptomatically or may produce neck pain, nerve root compression (radiculopathy) or spinal cord compression (myelopathy). Surgery is ...