To proof patients' benefit of minimally invasive surgery in the dorsal cervical spine an apparatus to examine head-neck-coordination was constructed. Two different surgical techniques will be compared: Laminoplasty: open approach vs minimally invasive surgery (MIS)-approach; Foraminotomy: open approach vs MIS-approach. Each patient will be tested before surgery, postoperative as well as 3 and 12 month follow-up. Hypothesis is that patients after MIS-approaches perform better in their head-neck-coordination as patients with open approaches.
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Performance of head-neck-coordination after surgery of the dorsal cervical spine
Timeframe: one year