Minster Chiropractic Center Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy

Minster Chiropractic Center treats Minster neck pain patients with cervical spine disc herniations that trigger arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care of arm pain radiculopathy helps Minster neck pain and arm pain sufferers experience some relief without surgery.

CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY

In setting up a treatment plan for 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 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) Minster Chiropractic Center considers such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment for our Minster 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 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 chronic/more active, individualized, self-managed care. Particularly, for the acute stage, multimodal management including spinal manipulation, patient education, exercise, and positioning that eases the pain were valuable. For subacute cervical radiculopathy, increased specific exercises, supervised motor control motions and/or mobilization may be incorporated. For chronic pain, general aerobic exercise and strength training, postural instruction, and ergonomic assessment of job-related activities may be added}29}. (2) We find 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 – described 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, rendering surgery needless. The researcher acknowledged that more research was available on lumbar disc herniations’ decreasing as 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 apt to do the same. (4) Like the author, Minster Chiropractic Center holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be required. Our conservative Minster chiropractic treatment will quite possibly help healing.

CONTACT Minster Chiropractic Center

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 Minster chiropractic appointment soon. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc herniation sufferers experience a pain-relieving partner at our clinic.

Minster Chiropractic Center uses the Cox® Technic spinal manipulation to treat cervical radiculopathy and avert surgery.  
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