STUDY DESIGN A prospective radiographic study of cervical spine with congenital monosegment fusion. PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of cervical synostosis on adjacent segments and the vertebral morphology. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE There are numerous clinical studies of adjacent segment disease (ASD) after monosegment surgical fusion. However, there was no report on ASD in the cervical spine wi...

STUDY DESIGN Prospective observational study. PURPOSE To investigate the value of pain distribution in localizing appropriate surgical levels in patients with cervical spondylosis. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Previous studies have investigated the value of pain drawings in its correlation with various features in degenerative spine diseases including surgical outcome, magnetic resonance imaging ...

Objective: To analyze the clinical value and nursing satisfaction of physical therapy in rehabilitation patients with cervical spondylosis. Methods: From November 2019 to 2020, 84 spondylosis were randomly divided into two groups. Group A was given therapy, while group B not therapy. The differences curative effect, function, quality life score between groups analyzed. Results: effect 97.62% hi...

A retrospective review of 94 patients who had undergone anterior cervical discectomy and fusion was performed to analyze the result in patients who had a diagnosis of posterolateral spondylosis, disc herniation, or both. Although in 23 of 94 patients additional adjacent asymptomatic levels of spondylosis were noted, only the symptomatic levels were addressed in the 94 cases. Postoperatively two...

We present data relating to the Bryan disc arthroplasty for the treatment of cervical spondylosis in 46 patients. Patients with either radiculopathy or myelopathy had a cervical discectomy followed by implantation of a cervical disc prosthesis. Patients were reviewed at six weeks, six months and one year and assessment included three outcome measures, a visual analogue scale (VAS), the short fo...