Cervical Myelopathy- when the spinal canal narrows to the point that causes spinal cord injury.

In 2009, Wade was diagnosed with cervical myelopathy, a disease affecting the spine, and Lyme disease.

Saint Ballado was euthanized in October 2002 after "surgery to correct clinical signs associated with a compressive cervical myelopathy."

In 1999 he was diagnosed with cervical myelopathy, and he had surgery in January 2000 at the California Pacific Medical Center.