Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center treats
Pensacola neck pain patients due to cervical spine disc
herniations that trigger arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care
of arm pain radiculopathy eases Pensacola neck pain and arm pain
non-surgically.
CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY
In caring for
cervical spine-related arm pain known as cervical radiculopathy, research guidelines report conservative
management as a first-line treatment alternative over surgery.
Clinically, cervical radiculopathy can pose as numbness, paresthesia, motor
change, reflex change and/or sensory change. Researchers have been collaborating
to establish guidelines for its non-surgical management and treatment
at different stages of pain including acute, subacute, and
chronic. (1) Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center uses such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment
for our Pensacola chiropractic patients.
GUIDELINES FOR TREATING CERVICAL DISC HERNIATIONS
In writing the non-surgical
guidelines, researchers described the risk-benefit ratio for
surgical treatment of cervical radiculopathy as less favorable
than for non-surgical, conservative care. In looking at
care of cervical radiculopathy through its phases, the
non-surgical interventions’ guidelines move from more passive care in the acute phase to more active, individualized, self-managed
care in the chronic phase. Specifically, for the acute
stage, multimodal management including spinal manipulation, patient
education, exercise, and positioning that alleviates the
pain were beneficial. For subacute cervical
radiculopathy, enhanced specific exercises, supervised motor
control motions and/or mobilization may be added. In the
chronic phase, patients may profit from general aerobic exercise
and strength training, postural instruction, and ergonomic assessment of
job-related activities, general aerobic exercise and
strength training, postural instruction, and ergonomic assessment of
job-related activities may be incorporated}29}. (2) We find
that our neck and arm pain patients are ready for activities
like this that get them back to living.
TIME AND THE CERVICAL DISC HERNIATION
Overall, in a recent systematic review study, 56.4%
of degenerative cervical radiculopathy patients - 39.1% of conservatively
treated patients and 60.5% of surgically treated patients – experienced motor deficits before treatment. (3) A
spine surgeon described a case report of a patient who
was ready to undergo cervical spine discectomy/fusion surgery
for a C4-C5 disc herniation whose
disc resorbed on a confirming repeat MRI, rendering surgery unnecessary.
The researcher acknowledged that more research was available
on lumbar disc herniations’ reducing as seen on MRI by 34.7% to 95% over 6 to 17 months
and total resorption of the disc in 43% to 75% yet postulated
that cervical disc herniations were apt to act the same way. (4) Like the author,
Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical
radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be necessary. Our
conservative Pensacola chiropractic treatment will quite possibly help healing.
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Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Umar Ellahie on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes cervical radiculopathy and its relieving care with
The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your Pensacola chiropractic
appointment today. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc
herniation sufferers have a pain-relieving partner at our
office.