Northwestern starting running back Jeremy Larkin is retiring from football after recently being diagnosed with cervical stenosis, a narrowing in the upper part of the spine. The team announced ...

More than 153,000 cervical spine procedures have been added to the American Spine Registry from 2015 to 2024, and the majority of them were anterior cervical discectomy and fusions, according to the ...

Cervical spinal stenosis means the narrowing has occurred in the neck region of the spine. When a surgical repair of this type of stenosis is recommended, the risk of injuring the spinal cord in a ...

The cervical os is the small opening at each end of the cervix. During ovulation, the cervical os opens to let sperm enter the uterus. Cervical stenosis is when the cervical os becomes too narrow or ...

Undergoing Cervical Spine Surgery with the Salt Lake Orthopedic Clinic at MountainStar Healthcare’s St. Mark’s Hospital ...

A laminoplasty is a surgical procedure that helps relieve pressure on the spinal cord and nerves. It involves opening a section of the lamina, a bony structure that sits on top of the spinal canal.