Neck Surgery

Featured Information

• Cervical Spine Surgery

  Cervical spine surgery is generally performed on an elective basis to treat either Nerve/spinal cord impingement (decompression surgery) or Spinal instability (fusion surgery). The two procedures are often combined, as a decompression may de-stabilize the spine and create the need for a fusion to add stability...
  By: Peter F. Ullrich, Jr., MD Read More

• Back Surgery and Neck Surgery

  The primary purpose of back surgery or neck surgery is to correct an anatomical lesion in individuals who fail to show improvement with conservative treatment. For those patients who have pain, but no anatomical lesion can be identified that accounts for their pain, surgery is not an option. Surgery is useful only to change a patient’s anatomy (e.g. remove a disc herniation). There is almost never any reason to consider exploratory surgery to “look” for a cause of pain.
  By: Peter F. Ullrich, Jr., MD Read More

Most Popular Content

• Anterior Cervical Spinal Fusion Surgery

• Cervical Foraminal Stenosis

• Spine Surgery for a Cervical Herniated Disc

  Most episodes of pain and discomfort from a cervical herniated disc will resolve over a period of weeks to a couple of months. However, if the pain is severe or lasts longer t...

• Anterior Cervical Corpectomy Spine Surgery

• Anterior cervical decompression and spine fusion procedure