The future for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy (DCM) looked bright in the Glasgow sunshine at BritSpine 2023! This international conference, held at the Scottish Event Campus from April 18-20, attracted over 600 delegates across the spine care profession. The UK Spine…
What is your name and where do you live? Michael Fehlings and I live in Toronto, Canada. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I am a Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and hold the Robert…
In recent years, the Myelopathy.org Student Society conducted a national education survey to assess Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy (DCM) education received by our future doctors in medical school. This was inspired by the top research priority identified by RECODE-DCM: raising awareness.…
On 29 April 2022 our Chair of the Board of Trustees, Helen Wood, met with Dr Rory Murphy, a Myelopathy.org Ambassador. Helen was travelling with her husband to Phoenix, Arizona, USA. She decided to take the opportunity to see Rory. It…
Hi everyone, it’s Liz here again, with the latest installment from the AO Spine RECODE-DCM project! It has been an exciting past few weeks. The third and final consensus meeting took place on 1 June 2022 at the Global Spine…
The greatest challenge facing those with degenerative cervical myelopathy is understanding and expressing their symptoms and to have a medical practitioner recognize and diagnose the condition early. In my experience neck pain is most often the earliest symptom patients can…
Awareness of myelopathy among non-specialist doctors is not as good as it should be. This fact is at least partly to blame for many patients being misdiagnosed, diagnosed too late or not diagnosed at all. This must change. At the…