The authors studied 32 participants who had been treated with a minimally invasive posterior cervical discectomy. There were many benefits of the treatment cited in the study including the following:
• Muscle weakness improved in all patients.
• Common disadvantages associated with the open surgical approach were eliminated.
• Patients had swifter symptom resolutions.
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