Posts From June, 2020

In this month’s first blog we discussed damage to the spinal cord — myelopathy. It is named for the area of the spine where it occurs: cervical myelopathy, thoracic myelopathy, and lumbar myelopathy. The most common form is cervical myelopathy, so in this second blog of June let’s get into a little more depth on […]

• Posted on: Jun 30 2020
• By: DFW Spine Center
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Because our vertebrae house and protect the spinal cord, it’s hard to see how the nerves that make up the spinal cord could be injured other than by some violent shearing during trauma, such as in a car accident. Actually, most cases of injury to the spinal cord, known as myelopathy, occur slowly over many […]

• Posted on: Jun 15 2020
• By: DFW Spine Center
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