MRIs can help providers assess damage to the spinal cord, spinal nerves ... hypertrophy usually affects the joints between C4 ...

Radiographs of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine reportedly showed diffuse osteopenia and moderate degenerative disk disease with cervical osteophytes at the C5–C6 and C6–C7 levels.

Laing suffered a spinal cord injury on Dec. 31 ... Laing shattered her C5 vertebra in front and fractured the C4, C5 and C6 vertebrae in the back. Law school fell down the list of priorities.