As a result, your nerves can’t send messages to muscles telling them to contract or spasm. With cervical dystonia, Botox prevents nerves from causing muscle contractions or spasms in your neck.

Sometimes, a more serious cause may be a tumor or rheumatoid arthritis. The neck contains the cervical spinal cord, muscles, and major blood vessels that supply the entire body. Many people ...

This approach should be reserved for those patients with predominantly upper plexus irritation, a significant history of trauma in the cervical area, and cervical disk disease. Using these ...

The brachial plexus is a network of nerve fibers connecting the cervical roots and the motor and sensory nerves of the upper extremities. This anatomical feature makes it easy to access and place the ...

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Between each pair of vertebrae are a right and a left neural foramen where the spinal nerves at that level exit to the right and left sides of your body. Your spine runs from the base of the skull ...

Sometimes treatments and modalities like cervical traction may be necessary to help get pressure off of your cervical nerves. If you have neck pain, it is important that you take steps to self-manage ...

The vast majority of people -- more than 90% -- with pain from cervical disc disease will get better on their own over time with simple, conservative treatments. Surgery, however, may help if ...

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