Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy
Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. cares for Auburn neck pain patients due to cervical spine disc herniations that trigger arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care of arm pain radiculopathy helps Auburn neck pain and arm pain sufferers experience some relief without surgery.
CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY
In caring for cervical spine-related arm pain known as cervical radiculopathy, research guidelines state conservative management as a first-line treatment option 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) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. uses such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment for our Auburn chiropractic patients.
GUIDELINES FOR TREATING CERVICAL DISC HERNIATIONS
In reporting the non-surgical guidelines, researchers described 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. Particularly, for the acute stage, multimodal management including spinal manipulation, patient education, exercise, and positioning that alleviates the pain were valuable. For subacute cervical radiculopathy, increased 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 incorporated}29}. (2) We understand that our neck and arm pain patients appreciate activities like this that allow them to return 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 – said they had 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 needless. The researcher conceded that more research was accessible on the reduction 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 likely to do the same. (4) Like the author, Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be required. Our conservative Auburn chiropractic treatment will quite possibly help in relieving the symptoms and pain.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Umar Ellahie on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates cervical radiculopathy and its relieving care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your Auburn chiropractic appointment soon. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc herniation sufferers have a pain-relieving partner at our clinic.
