What Is the Cervical Spine? Where Is the Cervical Spine Located? A long, flexible column extending through most of your upper body, the spinal column consists of seven bones called vertebrae. The ...

Ordinarily, you might not think too much about your spinal cord, since it’s protected by your spinal canal. But imagine what might happen if your spinal canal began to narrow around your spinal cord.

At the Baylor Medicine Spine Center, we treat varied and complex clinical problems associated with the spine. We treat all diseases of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine including: The neck ...

Many things can contribute to neck pain: poor posture, sitting for hours on end and a lacking ergonomic work set-up can all lead to neck and back discomfort. One treatment that can help relieve pain ...

The following text summarizes information provided in the video. Health care visits related to symptoms or concerns regarding the neck are common. Although musculoskeletal neck pain is usually ...

Cervical myelopathy is a condition that compresses your spinal cord. This happens due to narrowing or pressure in your cervical spine, or the neck region of your backbone. This condition is the most ...

A cervical foraminotomy is a procedure that decompresses a nerve in the neck. A spine surgeon removes bone or disc pieces that are pressing on the nerves that go from your neck to your arm. The ...

Cervical myelopathy and cervical radiculopathy are neurologic conditions. They both originate in the neck and cause a loss of function. Cervical myelopathy is caused by compression of the spinal cord ...

Military neck is a common term for issues with the curve of the neck. It happens when the cervical spine (neck) moves out of its normal alignment with the spine, and the unusual curves can hugely ...

Degenerative cervical spondylosis is a chronic, progressive deterioration of osseocartilaginous components of the cervical spine that is most often related to aging. Radiographic evidence of ...