Satterwhite Chiropractic treats
Oxford neck pain patients with cervical spine disc
herniations that cause arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care
of arm pain radiculopathy helps Oxford neck pain and arm pain sufferers find
some relief without surgery.
CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY
In setting up a treatment plan for for
cervical spine-related arm pain (aka cervical
radiculopathy), research guidelines describe conservative
management as a first-line treatment option over surgery.
Clinically, cervical radiculopathy can present as numbness, paresthesia, motor
change, reflex change and/or sensory change. Researchers have been working
to set guidelines for its non-surgical management and treatment
at different stages of pain including acute, subacute, and
chronic. (1) Satterwhite Chiropractic uses such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment
for our Oxford 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 promising
than for non-surgical, conservative care. In looking at
care of cervical radiculopathy through its phases, the
non-surgical interventions’ guidelines move from acute/more
passive care to chronic/more active,
individualized, self-managed care. Particularly, for the acute
stage, multimodal management including spinal manipulation, patient
education, exercise, and positioning that alleviates the
pain were effective. 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 incorporated}29}. (2) We know
that our neck and arm pain patients are ready for activities
like this that get them back to doing what
they want to do.
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 – said
they had 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 conceded 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 likely to act the same way. (4) Like the author,
Satterwhite Chiropractic holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical
radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be required. Our
conservative Oxford chiropractic treatment will quite possibly help in relieving the symptoms and pain.
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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.
Make your Oxford chiropractic
appointment soon. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc
herniation sufferers find a pain-relieving partner at our
clinic.