Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease

Axial neck pain alone Cervical radiculopathy (involves compression of a nerve root) Cervical myelopathy (involves compression of the spinal cord)

More pain with neck extension than flexion. Pain with flexion is muscle or disc related; pain with extension is

facet or foramen related. Radiculopathy: Unilateral weakness, nerve root compression, der-

matomal sensory changes. Spurling’s sign: Extension and rotation toward the symptomatic

side reproduces the radicular symptoms.