Pre-Operative Patient-Specific Factors Predict the Change in Adjacent Segment Range of Motion Three Years after Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion
Greater increase in superior adjacent segment motion 3YR-POST is predicted in younger, lower BMI, female patients with healthier preoperative discs. These results support the theory that disc degeneration progresses from early instability in younger, healthier discs to stabilization in older, less healthy discs.
Authors
- Samuel Pitcairn
- Clarissa M. LeVasseur (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7552-1765)
- Kimberly Hua
- David O. Okonkwo
- William Donaldson
- Jeremy Shaw
- William Anderst
- Joon Y. Lee
- Yan Ma
- Lingyi Peng
Institutions
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- NIHR Oxford Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Centre (GB)
- Indiana University School of Medicine
Publication Details
- Journal
- Spine
- Published
- 2026-02-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/brs.0000000000005656
- Primary Topic
- Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00