This article revisits the issue of posterior cervical spine instrumentation. Posterior cervical plates have become a powerful tool for spine surgeons, allowing unprecedented rigidity of the ...

Other causes include hardening of the posterior longitudinal ligament or the ligamentum flavum, which are soft tissue bands that normally help support the cervical spine. Sometimes people are born ...

Surgical options aim to relieve pressure on the spinal cord and provide stability to the neck. Common procedures are posterior cervical laminectomy, discectomy and fusion, or corpectomy.

Posterior cervical spine surgery and fusion involve operating on the back of the neck to treat conditions of the back and neck bones, discs, and nerves, to relieve pressure or alleviate pain.

Historically, posterior fixation and fusion have been the most popular method of internally stabilizing the cervical spine after injury. Although techniques such as wiring are effective for most ...