Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently revealed that he had a C5-C6 spinal cord surgery. This was the response of the SpaceX founder to a question by Twitter user Andy Phillips who noticed a scar located ...

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 ...

CPT code 22633 does not include the decompression, so in cases where the patient had a ruptured disc and a hemilaminectomy with discectomy is performed, code 63030 may be additionally reported.

In patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis, it is uncertain whether decompression surgery alone is noninferior to decompression with instrumented fusion. We conducted ...