Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries treats
Manchester neck pain patients due to cervical spine disc
herniations that trigger arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care
of arm pain radiculopathy eases Manchester neck pain and arm pain
non-surgically.
CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY
In setting up a treatment plan for for
cervical spine-related arm pain known as cervical radiculopathy, research guidelines report conservative
management as a first-line treatment alternative over surgery.
Clinically, cervical radiculopathy can appear as motor
change, paresthesia, reflex change, numbness and/or sensory change. Researchers have been working
to establish guidelines for its non-surgical management and treatment
at different stages of pain including acute, subacute, and
chronic. (1) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries uses such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment
for our Manchester chiropractic patients.
GUIDELINES FOR TREATING CERVICAL DISC HERNIATIONS
In writing 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 phases, the
non-surgical interventions’ guidelines move from more passive care in the acute phase to chronic/more active,
individualized, self-managed care. Specifically, for the acute
stage, multimodal management involving spinal manipulation, patient
education, exercise, and positioning that eases the
pain were beneficial. For subacute cervical
radiculopathy, increased specific exercises, supervised motor
control motions and/or mobilization may be incorporated. 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 incorporated}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 before 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
disc resorbed on a confirming repeat MRI, rendering surgery unnecessary.
The researcher acknowledged that more research was accessible
on lumbar disc herniations’ reducing 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 postulated
that cervical disc herniations were apt to act the same way. (4) Like the author,
Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical
radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be required. Our
conservative Manchester chiropractic treatment will quite possibly help in relieving the symptoms and pain.
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Schedule your Manchester chiropractic
appointment now. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc
herniation sufferers experience a pain-relieving partner at our
office.