Spinal Surgery a Risk for Tiger

Posted By: Anonymous | Posted On: May 11,2010 18:30 pm | View: 7 Tiger Woods neck injury: Can it threaten his golf career? Tiger's withdrawal from The Players Championship due to a neck injury has caused media speculation on how this might affect his career. What are the facts? The media descriptions suggest that inflammation of a spinal nerve in the neck due to damage to an intervertebral disc is the most likely diagnosis. The medical term is "cervical radiculopathy". While spontaneous improvement without treatment is a possibility, Tiger may also face the risk of spinal surgery. Non-surgical treatments, such as injections with cortisone or a newer more selective anti-inflammatory that blocks TNF (a treatment method developed at the INR® in Los Angeles), are other possibilities. Without additional information, such as the result of the pending MRI, and more detailed knowledge of his symptom pattern, it is not possible at this time to predict if this injury is a significant threat to his career. Read More: http://www.prweb.com/releases/Tiger/Spinalsurgery/prweb3993624.htm