Interesting article.  
I wrote about this about a year ago.
http://www.ispine.org/forum/ispine/6...eneration.html
I saw this in a client's films last summer.  His neck looked just like mine and I could see in his flexion/extension images that the adjacent levels were not moving.  That is what motivated me to schedule the cervical surgery... that I subsequently canceled.
Tough choices.  There is no questions that sooner is better than later....  if you are successful!
Mark