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Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy

Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation welcomes Tonawanda neck pain patients due to cervical spine disc herniations that cause arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care of arm pain radiculopathy eases Tonawanda neck pain and arm pain non-surgically.

CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY

In caring for cervical spine-related arm pain known as cervical radiculopathy, research guidelines state conservative management as a first-line treatment alternative over surgery. Clinically, cervical radiculopathy can appear as motor change, paresthesia, reflex change, numbness and/or sensory change. Researchers have been working to establish guidelines for its non-surgical management and treatment at different stages of pain including acute, subacute, and chronic. (1) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation considers such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment for our Tonawanda chiropractic patients.

GUIDELINES FOR TREATING CERVICAL DISC HERNIATIONS

In reporting 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 stages, the non-surgical interventions’ guidelines move from acute/more passive care to more active, individualized, self-managed care in the chronic phase. Specifically, for the acute stage, multimodal management involving spinal manipulation, patient education, exercise, and positioning that alleviates the pain were helpful. For subacute cervical radiculopathy, enhanced specific exercises, supervised motor control motions and/or mobilization may be incorporated. For chronic pain, general aerobic exercise and strength training, postural instruction, and ergonomic assessment of job-related activities may be included}29}. (2) We understand that our neck and arm pain patients are ready for activities like this that allow them to return to living.

TIME AND THE CERVICAL DISC HERNIATION

Overall, in one 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 presented a case report of a patient headed for cervical spine discectomy/fusion surgery for a C4-C5 disc herniation whose repeated MRI showed that the disc had resorbed, rendering surgery needless. The researcher acknowledged that more research was accessible on the reduction of lumbar disc herniations seen on MRI by 34.7% to 95% over 6 to 17 months and total resolution of the disc in 43% to 75% yet postulated that cervical disc herniations were likely to act the same way. (4) Like the author, Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be necessary. Our conservative Tonawanda chiropractic treatment may well help healing.

CONTACT Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Umar Ellahie on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates cervical radiculopathy and its relieving care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

Make your Tonawanda chiropractic appointment soon. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc herniation sufferers experience a pain-relieving partner at our chiropractic practice.

Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation offers the Cox® Technic spinal manipulation to treat cervical radiculopathy and avert surgery.  
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