Background
neck pain, disability, pain
CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY, ANTERIOR
Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion (ACDF), with or without cages or plates to support the segment, is a common surgical technique to treat cervical radiculopathy due to degenerative disc disease [Degenerative processes of the cervical spine progress with age and may result in symptomatic adjacent segment disease [The purpose of this study was to compare pain and disability outcomes between Cloward procedure and a carbon fiber interbody fusion cage (CIFC) over time, to describe self-reported outcomes of pain, disability, and psychosocial factors more than 20 years after surgery, and to investigate associations between neck pain and disability, and self-efficacy and quality of life.