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Chiropractic Solutions Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy

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.

Chiropractic Solutions offers the Cox® Technic spinal manipulation to treat cervical radiculopathy and avert surgery.  
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