Neck (Cervical Spine) Archives

Cervical Joint Degeneration Dramatically Improves After Stem Cell Treatment

We spend a lot of time looking at MRIs both before and after stem cell treatments. We’ve seen some fascinating improvements that exceed expectations, some MRIs that really didn’t change much, and everything in between. Today, we’re going to review a truly dramatic improvement seen on the MRI of a patient who had a cervical … Continued

CSF Flow Measurement And Recovery From CCJ Instability

We’re nearing the quarter-century point of the 21st century, and technology in the field of medicine continues to advance at an incredibly fast pace. Thanks to advances in imaging technology, we’ll learn more in the following few decades about the neuromusculoskeletal system than we’ve learned in the past few hundred years. A clear example of … Continued

Radiofrequency Ablation: Why We Don’t Perform This Destructive Procedure

In interventional orthopedics, our focus is on regenerative medicine. Therefore, we seek to preserve and regenerate structures, not destroy them. That in a nutshell is why we eighty-sixed RFA many years ago. With the advanced technologies and orthobiologics solutions available to treat patients today, RFA should be confined to our medical history books, yet, unfortunately, … Continued

Is Your Head Heavy? You May Have Weak Neck Muscles

Heavy Head? Does your head feel too heavy for your body? Do you tend to get a lot of headaches? If so, the culprit might be weak upper-neck muscles. We’ll learn more about these in a moment, but, first, a few facts about the head. The Head May Be Small, but It Packs a Lot … Continued

Botox May Ease Headache but Damages Muscle

Have you ever thought about getting Botox for headaches? It has become a very popular solution for treating headaches in recent years. While it does seem to ease some headache symptoms, unfortunately, Botox for headaches may be doing much more damage than good. Before we explain, let’s define Botox. What Is Botox? Botox is a … Continued

Neck Surgery and Its Consequences: Adjacent Segment Disease

At the Centeno-Schultz Clinic, we are committed to providing each patient the most advanced nonsurgical treatment, utilizing platelet, cytokine, and stem cell injections, for common orthopedic conditions. The risks associated with surgery are many and have been discussed in previous blogs. These include infection, failure, persistent or elevated pain, change in biomechanics, and adjacent segment disease. … Continued

Is Your Headache Arising from Your Neck?

At the Centeno-Schultz Clinic, we acknowledge that headache pain can be disabling. It can rob you of your ability to engage in and love life and render you incapable of completing the easiest of tasks. Headaches can arise from a number of stimuli, which include but are not limited to fatigue, hormonal imbalance, sun exposure, … Continued

Is Your AC Joint Contributing to Your Ongoing Neck Pain?

At the Centeno-Schultz Clinic, we understand the complexities of the human body and appreciate how structures are interrelated. We reject the piecemeal approach commonly employed by orthopedic surgeons and pain-management specialists and embrace the body as a whole when evaluating and treating patients. Such is the case with the AC joint and the areas connected … Continued

Why Your Shoulder Issue May Actually Be A Neck Problem

If there’s one thing that we probably preach more so than any other at CSC, it’s that the body is actually one fully functioning machine. While at some point in medical history, it was stripped down and broken into individual body systems (e.g., nervous system, musculoskeletal system, gastrointestinal system, circulatory system, etc.) and from there … Continued

Why Cervical Disc Replacement Is No Better than a Fusion

Is it better to surgically remove a cervical disc and replace it with a fake one or surgically remove a cervical disc and bolt together the vertebrae above and below it to fuse it into one solid piece of bone? The former (the cervical disc replacement), while also highly invasive, certainly seems less drastic than … Continued

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