sorry if it seems like i am beating a dead horse. if surgical intervention becomes necessary, could posterior cervical foraminotomy be performed with “slight kyphosis” as described in the MRI report?
According to the MRI plus the diagnostics (e.g. positive Spurling’s a week after initial injury), I have a disc extrusion @C5-6 disc causing effacement of the left foramen with the presence of anterior and posterior osteophytes (MRI report does not indicate that osteophytes are encroaching; but it also doesn’t say they aren’t – at least at the c5-6 level.) So, how would a physician classify it? Herniation? Stenosis? Both?
Would lifting exercises such as dead-lift, shoulder press, bench press, and barbell squats be safe to perform with extruded disc resulting in neuro-foraminal compression?
