This article was written for our sponsor, Dr. Sameer Mathur, Orthopedic Surgeon. Approximately 1.1 million patients in the United States suffer from symptomatic cervical disc disease each year. This ...

Usually the first step is conservative treatment. Patients who have radicular symptoms but who do not have weakness or myelopathy can be treated conservatively. Conservative treatment can include ...

The FDA recently approved the Medtronic Prestige LP Cervical System for treating degenerative disc disease at two adjacent vertebral levels (between C3 and C7). The device is said to be Medtronic’s ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Patients with 2-level symptomatic cervical disc degeneration fare better in terms of future secondary surgeries when their discs are replaced rather than fused, a new study shows. "We ...

Simplify Medical, Inc. is pioneering disc arthroplasty with the non-metal, MRI compatible Simplify™ Disc, a cervical artificial disc. The Company announced today that it received Investigational ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Simplify Medical, Inc., maker of the Simplify® cervical artificial disc, today announced that the first patient has been treated in the device’s pivotal clinical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An artificial cervical disc improved clinical outcomes vs. anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at 5-year ...

AUDUBON, Pa., Oct. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Globus Medical, Inc. (NYSE: GMED), a leading musculoskeletal solutions company, presented five-year outcomes from the NuVasive Simplify Cervical Disc ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo., Oct. 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ZimVie Inc. (Nasdaq: ZIMV), a global life sciences leader in the dental and spine markets, today announced that the first patient in the United ...

Adding to the already length list of reasons not to smoke, researchers have connected smoking to worsening degenerative disc disease in the cervical spine, according to new research. Adding to the ...