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I had cervical spondylitic myelopathy at C5-C6 which caused loss of bladder control, walking like I had cement boots on, dropping things I would pick up, difficulty with handwriting/fine-motor skills, etc. I also had lots of headaches and muscle pain/tension in neck and shoulders. I had ACDF where they removed damaged disc and osteocytes pressing on my spinal cord and my own bone was used to create the “cement” between the vertebrae to fuse and then they put a titanium cage around it to support. My symptoms definitely improved since the surgery.

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Autocorrect changed osteophytes to osteocytes. It is the extra bone growth that your vertebrae creates to manage load and stabilize but end up causing problems if pressing on spinal cord or peripheral nerve roots.