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Spinal Care Clinic Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy

Spinal Care Clinic takes care of Burlington and Hamilton neck pain patients due to cervical spine disc herniations that trigger arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care of arm pain radiculopathy eases Burlington and Hamilton neck pain and arm pain non-surgically.

CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY

In caring for cervical spine-related arm pain (aka 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 collaborating to establish guidelines for its non-surgical management and treatment at different stages of pain including acute, subacute, and chronic. (1) Spinal Care Clinic considers such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment for our Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic patients.

GUIDELINES FOR TREATING CERVICAL DISC HERNIATIONS

In presenting the non-surgical guidelines, researchers explained the risk-benefit ratio for surgical treatment of cervical radiculopathy as less promising than for non-surgical, conservative care. In looking at care of cervical radiculopathy through its stages, the non-surgical interventions’ guidelines shift from more passive care in the acute phase to chronic/more active, individualized, self-managed care. Specifically, for the acute stage, multimodal management involving spinal manipulation, patient education, exercise, and positioning that eases the pain were valuable. For subacute cervical radiculopathy, increased 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 included}29}. (2) We know 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 one systematic review study, 56.4% of degenerative cervical radiculopathy patients - 39.1% of conservatively treated patients and 60.5% of surgically treated patients – described 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 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 resolution of the disc in 43% to 75% yet postulated that cervical disc herniations were apt to do the same. (4) Like the author, Spinal Care Clinic holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be necessary. Our conservative Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic treatment will quite possibly help healing.

CONTACT Spinal Care Clinic

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 Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic appointment now. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc herniation sufferers find a pain-relieving partner at our chiropractic practice.

Spinal Care Clinic offers the Cox® Technic spinal manipulation to treat cervical radiculopathy and avert surgery.  
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