Cervical radiculopathy is a condition caused by a pinched nerve in your neck. It happens when your cervical spinal cord or nerve roots arising from it become compressed by the cervical vertebrae. Your ...

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 ...

Neck muscles are bodies of tissue that produce motion in the neck when stimulated. The muscles of the neck run from the base of the skull to the upper back and work together to bend the head and ...

Using high-precision X-ray imaging to track spine movements during neck exertion tasks, researchers discovered that sustained neck exertions cause muscle fatigue that then exaggerate the cervical ...

A lordotic curve is normal, but if your arch is too far inward, it’s called lordosis or swayback. This can manifest as lower back lordosis or cervical spine lordosis. Everyone’s spine curves a little ...

ASYMPTOMATIC hypertrophic spurs of the anterior margin of the cervical vertebras are not uncommon. However, if the mass of hypertrophic bone projects into the pharynx enough to impinge upon the food ...

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 ...