According to the
X Japan Official Web Page, YOSHIKI will undergo neck surgery today at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA, where many other celebrities have received treatment in the past. Director of Orthopaedic Spine Surgery, MD, Mch Orth.
Neel Anand will preform a cervical foraminotomy, which is a minimally invasive procedure done to relieve the symptoms of a pinched nerve by enlarging the space through which the nerve root exits from the spinal cord.
The surgery became necessary because of increasing neck pains and left hand numbness. Before deciding on getting cervical foraminotomy, YOSHIKI did seek out second and third options on the diagnosis and treatment, but concluded that a surgery was necessary.
After the surgery, YOSHIKI will need a few weeks to recover from the surgery and a month or more of rehabilitation. In the case of his condition not improving, alternative treatments might be considered.
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