Chiropractic Solutions treats
San Jose neck pain patients due to cervical spine disc
herniations that trigger arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care
of arm pain radiculopathy eases San Jose neck pain and arm pain
non-surgically.
CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY
In managing for
cervical spine-related arm pain (aka cervical
radiculopathy), research guidelines describe conservative
management as a first-line treatment alternative over surgery.
Clinically, cervical radiculopathy can pose as motor
change, paresthesia, reflex change, numbness and/or sensory change. Researchers have been working
to set guidelines for its non-surgical management and treatment
at various stages of pain including acute, subacute, and
chronic. (1) Chiropractic Solutions uses such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment
for our San Jose 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. When studying the
care of cervical radiculopathy through its stages, the
non-surgical interventions’ guidelines move from acute/more
passive care to more active, individualized, self-managed
care in the chronic phase. Specifically, for the acute
stage, multimodal management including spinal manipulation, patient
education, exercise, and positioning that eases the
pain were helpful. For subacute cervical
radiculopathy, enhanced specific exercises, supervised motor
control motions and/or mobilization may be added. For chronic pain, 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 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 – experienced motor deficits prior to treatment. (3) A
spine surgeon presented a case report of a patient headed for cervical spine discectomy/fusion surgery
for a C4-C5 disc herniation whose repeated MRI showed that the disc had resorbed, making surgery needless.
The researcher conceded that more research was accessible
on the decrease
of lumbar disc herniations seen on MRI by 34.7% to 95% over 6 to 17 months
and total resorption of the disc in 43% to 75% yet postulated
that cervical disc herniations were likely to do
the same. (4) Like the author,
Chiropractic Solutions holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical
radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be necessary. Our
conservative San Jose chiropractic treatment may
well help in relieving the symptoms and pain.
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Umar Ellahie on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes cervical radiculopathy and its relieving care with
The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your San Jose chiropractic
appointment soon. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc
herniation sufferers find a pain-relieving partner at our
office.