Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre welcomes
Toronto neck pain patients due to cervical spine disc
herniations that cause arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care
of arm pain radiculopathy eases Toronto 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 option over surgery.
Clinically, cervical radiculopathy can pose as numbness, paresthesia, motor
change, reflex change and/or sensory change. Researchers have been collaborating
to set guidelines for its non-surgical management and treatment
at various stages of pain including acute, subacute, and
chronic. (1) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre uses such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment
for our Toronto 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 phases, the
non-surgical interventions’ guidelines shift 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 helpful. For subacute cervical
radiculopathy, increased specific exercises, supervised motor
control motions and/or mobilization may be added. 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 incorporated}29}. (2) We understand
that our neck and arm pain patients appreciate activities
like this that allow them to return to doing what
they want to do.
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 – reported motor deficits before treatment. (3) A
spine surgeon presented 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, making surgery unnecessary.
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 resorption of the disc in 43% to 75% yet contended
that cervical disc herniations were likely to do
the same. (4) Like the author,
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical
radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be necessary. Our
conservative Toronto chiropractic treatment will quite possibly help healing.
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describes cervical radiculopathy and its relieving care with
The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
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