Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy
Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers welcomes Baton Rouge neck pain patients due to cervical spine disc herniations that cause arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care of arm pain radiculopathy eases Baton Rouge neck pain and arm pain non-surgically.
CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY
In managing for cervical spine-related arm pain known as cervical radiculopathy, research guidelines describe 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) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers uses such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment for our Baton Rouge 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 stages, the non-surgical interventions’ guidelines shift from more passive care in the acute phase 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 effective. For subacute cervical radiculopathy, increased specific exercises, supervised motor control motions and/or mobilization may be added. In the chronic phase, patients may benefit 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 added}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 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 – recorded motor deficits prior to treatment. (3) A spine surgeon described 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, making surgery unnecessary. The researcher conceded that more research was accessible on lumbar disc herniations’ decreasing 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 contended that cervical disc herniations were likely to do the same. (4) Like the author, Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be necessary. Our conservative Baton Rouge chiropractic treatment may well 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 Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment soon. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc herniation sufferers find a pain-relieving partner at our clinic.
