Cervical laminectomy: To remove excessive pressure from nerve roots, your surgeon will remove a portion of the vertebral bone called the lamina to make more room for your spinal cord and spinal nerve.

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.

A doctor will deliver radiofrequency energy via the needle to keep nerve impulses from transmitting. A doctor may repeat the procedure at another level or area of the cervical spine.

Complications of surgery for cervical radiculopathy with or without myelopathy are uncommon but can include iatrogenic injury to the spinal cord (occurring in less than 1 percent of cases), nerve ...

Cervical radiculitis (cervical radiculopathy) happens when something presses up against one of the nerve roots near the top of your spine. This pressure is usually caused by a herniated or worn ...

But, depending on their size, number and location, they can crowd or touch a nerve or the spinal cord. This can cause numbness, tingling, weakness, headache and dull, sharp or radiating pain.

Among the spinal nerves, the five that give rise to the brachial plexus (C5, C6, C7, C8, and T1) together contain approximately 40,000 to 69,000 nerve fibers and innervate the entire upper ...

A high cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) is an injury in the upper neck between the first and fourth cervical vertebrae (C1 to C4). SCIs can damage the phrenic nerve that controls the diaphragm (the ...