Do you often wake up with a stiff neck or feel pain in your shoulders after a long day at work? If that is the case, these symptoms could be early signs of cervical spondylitis, a degenerative ...

Degenerative cervical spondylosis is a chronic, progressive deterioration of osseocartilaginous components of the cervical spine that is most often related to aging. Radiographic evidence of ...

Cervical spondylosis is also called cervical osteoarthritis. It is a condition involving changes to the bones, disks, and joints of the neck, usually as people age. Cervical spondylosis most often ...

In this video from the Open Operating Theatre, Hossein Mehdian, MD, of Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, the United Kingdom, discusses how to perform a cervical osteotomy in 37-year-old man with ...

Medically reviewed by Scott Zashin, MD Key Takeaways Neck arthritis is common and affects more than 85% of people over the age of 60.Symptoms of neck arthritis include neck pain, stiffness, tingling, ...

Ankylosing spondylitis is a long term painful disease that affects the spine, bones, muscles and ligaments that connect bones. There is presence of joint pain and inflammation akin to arthritis in ...

In 1890, A. E. Garrod is credited for first noting involvement of the cervical spine in 178 of 500 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). 1 Though most often recognized in association with RA, the ...

Q: My son, who is 42, has spondylitis. Can you give me information about treatments that might help? Thank you. A: Any disease of the spine can cause similar symptoms, such as pain and stiffness in ...

I’ve had ankylosing spondylitis (AS) for nearly a decade. I’ve experienced symptoms like chronic back pain, limited mobility, extreme fatigue, gastrointestinal (GI) issues, eye inflammation, and joint ...

While bone spurs alone aren’t typically painful, these growths in your neck can become symptomatic as they press down on nerve endings in your spine and cause pain or discomfort when you move your ...