Cervical spinal alignment is most commonly lordotic, although a range of alignments may be considered normal, depending on the patient’s age and full-body posture. Figure 1 Diagram of the ...

The nerves that run through your cervical spine send messages between your muscles and brain. ... In middle-aged people, normal degenerative changes in the disks can cause pressure on nerve roots.

Military neck is an informal name for cervical spine deformities that cause unusual curves in your spine. ... also called cervical kyphosis, your neck has lost some of its normal curvature.

A lordotic curve is normal, but if your arch is too far inward, it’s called lordosis or swayback. This can manifest as lower back lordosis or cervical spine lordosis. Everyone’s spine curves a ...

The other cervical vertebras were normal. An upper gastrointestinal series, barium-enema films, ... The cervical spinal cord was found to be pushed dorsally by a ventral lesion.