Milwaukee, Wisconsin news reports in Artificial disc touted as potential alternative to spinal fusion that a Wisconsin spine surgeon has implanted an artificial cervical disc in the neck of a man suffering pain from a disc herniation injury. Disc herniations are quite common with:
 | Work-related neck, spinal and back injuries and involving Wisconsin workers compensation law; and |
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Wisconsin car accidents, which frequently cause spine trauma and traumatic injuries including ruptured disc injury, herniated discs, vertebrae injury, protruding discs, cervical disc pain, thoracic injury or lumbar pain and typically such injuries are more severe than temporary soft tissue cervical neck injuries, often labeled whiplash. |
The Journal Sentinel reports that the disc could end many spinal fusions done by orthopedic surgeons in Wisconsin. Implants have been tested in Europe and are marketed through Medtronic Inc.'s spine division. Implants aim to end complications of vertebrae disc injury, herniations, protrusions, and cervical, thoracic and lumbar injury. Implants try to improve range of motion, which spinal fusions limit and prevent more damage to discs above and below the level fused.
| Medical College of Wisconsin Healthlink Topics: Back/Spine - Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Medical College of Wisconsin site has the latest articles on disc surgery, spinal fusions, herniated discs, and neck, cervical, back, thoracic, and lumbar injuries. |
| Orthopedic Surgery - The Spine Center at University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin, The Spine Center at the University of Wisconsin similarly has information relating to back and neck pain, disc-related injury, spine injury, and recent developments and technologies. |
| Wisconsin Spine Centers, Surgeons & Clinics - List of various spine centers, surgeons, and clinics. Site has information relating to conditions of the spine, discs, herniations, cervical, back, thoracic, and lumbar injury. It further has treatment guides, and information on spondylosis, stenosis, osteoporosis, whiplash, sciatica, and scoliosis. |
In Milwaukee, thousands of neck injury and back injuries are seen by Medical College of Wisconsin physicians and surgeons who often meet at the Medical Complex including Froedtert Hospital or Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
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