Chiropractic Solutions Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy
Chiropractic Solutions cares for San Jose neck pain patients due to cervical spine disc herniations that cause 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 known as cervical radiculopathy, research guidelines describe conservative management as a first-line treatment alternative over surgery. Clinically, cervical radiculopathy can appear 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) Chiropractic Solutions uses such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment for our San Jose chiropractic patients.
GUIDELINES FOR TREATING CERVICAL DISC HERNIATIONS
In reporting the non-surgical guidelines, researchers explained the risk-benefit ratio for surgical treatment of cervical radiculopathy as less favorable than for non-surgical, conservative care. When studying the care of cervical radiculopathy through its stages, the non-surgical interventions’ guidelines move from more passive care in the acute phase to chronic/more active, individualized, self-managed care. Particularly, for the acute stage, multimodal management involving spinal manipulation, patient education, exercise, and positioning that relieves the pain were helpful. For subacute cervical radiculopathy, enhanced specific exercises, supervised motor control motions and/or mobilization may be incorporated. 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 added}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 – recorded motor deficits before treatment. (3) A spine surgeon described a case report of a patient headed for 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 apt to act the same way. (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 will quite possibly 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 describes cervical radiculopathy and its relieving care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your San Jose chiropractic appointment now. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc herniation sufferers have a pain-relieving partner at our office.
