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.
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