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Cases, treatments and second opinions
Dr. Mitchell Long writes about the cases he sees, how treatment decisions are made, and what recovery looks like. Education, not a diagnosis.
Treatments
The decision is not which operation is better. Both relieve the same compression from the front of the neck; what separates them is your alignment, your bone and the state of your facet joints.
Oct 2026 · 6 min read
Conditions
Dropping things, struggling with buttons, feeling unsteady on stairs. These are neck symptoms that often arrive without much neck pain, and they are the one cervical diagnosis where waiting has a cost.
Oct 2026 · 6 min read
Recovery
Most of what makes these two weeks difficult is not the incision. It is sleep, medication, and not knowing which of the things you are feeling is normal.
Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Conditions
Degeneration, bulges and wear are visible on the scans of most adults past forty, including those with no pain at all. What connects a finding to your symptoms is the examination, not the report.
Oct 2026 · 6 min read
Dr. Mitchell Long publishes the cases he operates on — the imaging, the diagnosis, the operation and the reasoning. They are written for other surgeons, so they read technically; what a patient can take from them is how carefully the thinking is done.
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