Questions and Answers – Prestige Artificial Disc
What type of symptoms would a patient have to have for you to consider them as a candidate for the Prestige® Cervical Disc?
The ideal patient would have pain shooting into their arms and hands in a pattern that matched a disc problem at the correct level of the neck. Many would have neck pain along with this. Some patients would also have weakness in arm or hand muscles or numbness or tingling in their arm or hands.
What type of conditions does the Prestige Cervical Disc replacement surgery treat?
It treats degenerated discs in the neck or herniated discs in the neck. Most patients with these herniated discs of the neck will have compression of the spinal cord or nerve roots as well as neck pain associated with the degenerated discs.
What is the Prestige Cervical Disc made out of? Is it a material that's been used in people in the past?
The Prestige Cervical Disc is constructed with medical grade stainless steel. Other stainless steel implants have been used safely and successfully for a number of indications for many decades.
How is the Prestige Cervical Disc implanted? Is it a familiar technique?
The Prestige Cervical Disc is implanted through an incision in the front of the neck, which provides direct access to the disc space. It is a familiar approach. This is the same approach used to treat cervical disc herniation through an anterior cervical fusion.
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Last updated: 3 Aug 2008
