Contraindications Of Cervical Stroke Risks
Article updated and reviewed by Luc D. Jasmin MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery and Principal Investigator, Pain Research, University of California, San Francisco on June 20, 2005.
The cervical spine is the part of the neck made of seven vertebrae (bones shaped like blocks) separated from one another by a disk. A disk is donut-shaped cushion, and there are seven disks in the cervical spine. The center (the nucleus pulposus) of the disk is filled with a soft material, which is...
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