by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. When conservative treatment methods fail for those enduring cervical spine/neck pain, surgeons and patients may opt for anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF). The postop period, however, is often aggravated by, well, the aggravation of swallowing problems. But after studying 106 patients who underwent SCDF, researchers from Hospital for Special …