What does cervical degenerative disease mean?

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Hello everyone, today I would like to introduce to you what is cervical degeneration? Cervical degeneration is the growth with age, with cervical activity will show cervical degeneration, this degeneration has normal, there are abnormal cases. Normal degeneration generally has no harm to people, it is a normal aging, and excessive degeneration is abnormal degeneration will cause some diseases. Cervical spine degeneration is mainly manifested in imaging as bone spur, hyperosteogeny, disc herniation, ligament ossification, etc. Pathological degeneration or excessive degeneration will cause disc herniation or excessive bone spur compression of nerves, which will show nerve compression. For example, cause nerve root type cervical spondylosis, or cervical spondylotic myelopathy, this situation needs timely treatment, otherwise it may cause paralysis, and even cause incontinence. The above content is for reference only!

What does cervical degenerative disease mean?



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