Layden Chiropractic Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy
Layden Chiropractic welcomes Plainville neck pain patients due to cervical spine disc herniations that cause arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care of arm pain radiculopathy helps Plainville neck pain and arm pain sufferers find some relief without surgery.
CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY
In caring for cervical spine-related arm pain known as cervical radiculopathy, research guidelines state conservative management as a first-line treatment option 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) Layden Chiropractic considers such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment for our Plainville chiropractic patients.
GUIDELINES FOR TREATING CERVICAL DISC HERNIATIONS
In presenting the non-surgical guidelines, researchers described the risk-benefit ratio for surgical treatment of cervical radiculopathy as less promising than for non-surgical, conservative care. When studying the care of cervical radiculopathy through its stages, the non-surgical interventions’ guidelines move from more passive care in the acute phase to chronic/more active, individualized, self-managed care. Specifically, for the acute stage, multimodal management including spinal manipulation, patient education, exercise, and positioning that relieves the pain were valuable. For subacute cervical radiculopathy, enhanced specific exercises, supervised motor control motions and/or mobilization may be added. For chronic pain, general aerobic exercise and strength training, postural instruction, and ergonomic assessment of job-related activities may be added}29}. (2) We find that our neck and arm pain patients appreciate 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 – reported motor deficits prior to treatment. (3) A spine surgeon presented a case report of a patient who was ready to undergo cervical spine discectomy/fusion surgery for a C4-C5 disc herniation whose repeated MRI showed that the disc had resorbed, rendering surgery unnecessary. The researcher acknowledged that more research was available on the decrease 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 contended that cervical disc herniations were apt to act the same way. (4) Like the author, Layden Chiropractic holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be necessary. Our conservative Plainville 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 illustrates cervical radiculopathy and its relieving care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Plainville chiropractic appointment now. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc herniation sufferers experience a pain-relieving partner at our office.
