The Bryan Artificial Cervical Disc was approved by the United States FDA for distribution on May 12, 2009. The Bryan Disc is approved for use in patients with a single level degenerative disc disease or disc herniations between C3-C7, with intractable radiculopathy, and has failed 6 weeks of conservative therapy. Read the details in the approval letter and package contents.

Dr. Pashman participated in the clinical trials and has been utilizing artificial discs as a treatment option since 2002. He is at the forefront of the technology, and one of a handful of physicians in the United States performing this procedure. There will be a handful of hospitals that have the new instrumentation for the Bryan Artificial Cervical Disc, and our Medical Center is one of them.

The artificial disc is not for everyone. For patient's who are not candidates for the artificial disc, the gold standard of treatment for cervical degenerative disc disease or a cervical herniated disc is an Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion.