Chiropractor in Fanwood Explains Smoking and Cervical Disc Degeneration

Top Fanwood chiropractor explains the effect smoking has, if any, on the cervical disks.

In this study, researchers examined 320 patients with a chief complaint of neck-shoulder pain and found that those who were smokers had a greater degree of cervical disk degeneration, as shown on MRI scans, than nonsmokers.

Relation of Smoking & Disc Degeneration in Fanwood

Furthermore, the participants who smoked also reported more severe pain scores than the nonsmoking individuals in the study. These findings provide yet another reason to either stop smoking or to never start in the first place.

International Journal of Surgery, April 2018.

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