Remember: myelopathy is a narrowing in the spinal canal which compresses the cord. This patient with a cervical myelopathy is having difficulty with walking and fine motor movements. Our first…
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You might want to be snug as a bug but you don't want your spinal cord to be snug. With cervical myelopathy, the spinal cord is compressed which can cause…
Although this patient had a previous laminectomy, you can see now where the disc is collapsed at L3-4 and herniated at L4-5. To amend this, I'm going to perform a…
It's a wonderful feeling when a patient you treated decades ago trusts you to perform a second surgery. 20 years ago I operated on this patient and performed an L3-L5 spinal…
Hello disc replacement fans! Today we're tackling a total disc replacement at C4-5 and C5-6 for a patient in their 50s with a vigorous lifestyle that did not want a spinal…
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It can be hard to understand the difference between incisions 10 years ago and incisions today. 10 years ago, this patient had a laminectomy with a cut that was 8"…
Degenerative disc disease, disc herniations, left side radiculopathy, lower back pain...you hate to see it but the spine is a complex structure and these things happen. To help this patient,…
Having chronic arm pain and muscle weakness is usually an indicator of a larger problem. When examining this patient I discovered several abnormalities, the most significant being a disc herniation…