Baton Rouge Chiropractic Non-Surgical Relief for a Disc Herniation in the Neck

Guidelines are part of healthcare today. There are best-evidence guidelines for everything from how to manage arthritis to kidney disease to back pain. There are best-evidence guidelines for most professions from allergy and immunology to urology. Chiropractic care is part of it all as is back pain and neck pain management. Such guidelines present a base for physicians like your Baton Rouge chiropractor to practice and Baton Rouge chiropractic patients to see that  they are being treated with the best evidenced care. Healthcare guidelines continue to evolve, and guidelines for neck pain due to cervical disc herniation point to an 8 to 12 week wait before surgical intervention which is just enough time for Baton Rouge chiropractic care at Spine & Sports Rehab Center to potentially prevent Baton Rouge back surgery for many.

In Europe, national guidelines for the non-surgical care of new start neck pain or cervical radiculopathy (arm pain) are presented:  Supervised exercise with manual therapy. Exercise and manual therapy before medicine for neck pain. Acupuncture for neck pain. Traction for cervical radiculopathy. NSAIDs (oral or topical) and tramadol after careful consideration for both neck pain and cervical radiculopathy.  The guidelines also recommend telling the patient about warning signs, prognosis and advice to keep active along with treatment.  (1) Good advice! Spine & Sports Rehab Center is committed to Baton Rouge chiropractic patient education. Spine & Sports Rehab Center wants to be sure Baton Rouge patients know their spinal condition, understand the treatment plan to reduce pain, and embrace their role in achieving, keeping and supporting the relief so that they don’t have to experience arm pain or neck pain any longer than they have to or have to experience Baton Rouge neck surgery.

A study of Dutch neurosurgeons shows30 that 76.3% of them use the anterior cervical discectomy with fusion for cervical spine disc herniation surgeries. This means that they reach the cervical spine via the front of the neck, not the back. This surgical approach has a higher risk for complications than a straightforward anterior cervical discectomy, but the surgeons believe it to be more helpful for arm pain relief. In view of the risk, luckily, the surgeons seek a minimum of 8 to 12 weeks of radicular arm pain in a patient in advance of a neck surgery. (2) That gives Baton Rouge chiropractic care just enough time to ease Baton Rouge neck pain.

In 8 weeks, Baton Rouge chiropractic care at Spine & Sports Rehab Center with Cox Technic can do wonders! In a retrospective review of 39 patients treated with Cox Technic protocols for cervical spine in patients with cervical radiculopathy (arm pain), 13.2 treatments was the mean number of treatments to produce arm pain relief. (3) In 10 weeks, Cox Technic delivers a favorable clinical outcome that lasts! A 2 year follow up with a patient who had a C6-7 cervical disc herniation with radiculopathy arm pain showed that subjective and objective signs or relief were stable. (4) In the conservative medical care arena, 83% patients with symptomatic cervical spine disc herniation with radiculopathy recover in about 24 to 36 months with the most progress toward recovery happening in the first 4 to 6 months. (5) [companyname]] invites the challenge of Baton Rouge neck pain with radiculopathy with this knowledge and confidently approaches neck pain and arm pain due to cervical disc herniation with pain relief as the end result. The Baton Rouge treatment plan for cervical spine pain is ready for you!

Schedule a Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment today at Spine & Sports Rehab Center for neck pain and arm pain evaluation and Baton Rouge neck pain relieving non-surgical chiropractic treatment.

 
 
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