Pflugerville Wellness Center welcomes
Pflugerville neck pain patients due to cervical spine disc
herniations that cause arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care
of arm pain radiculopathy eases Pflugerville 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 appear as motor
change, paresthesia, reflex change, numbness and/or sensory change. Researchers have been collaborating
to set guidelines for its non-surgical management and treatment
at different stages of pain including acute, subacute, and
chronic. (1) Pflugerville Wellness Center uses such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment
for our Pflugerville 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 favorable
than for non-surgical, conservative care. When studying the
care of cervical radiculopathy through its stages, the
non-surgical interventions’ guidelines shift from more passive care in the acute phase to more active, individualized, self-managed
care in the chronic phase. Specifically, for the acute
stage, multimodal management involving spinal manipulation, patient
education, exercise, and positioning that relieves the
pain were beneficial. For subacute cervical
radiculopathy, enhanced 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 incorporated}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 – reported 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 repeated MRI showed that the disc had resorbed, rendering surgery unnecessary.
The researcher conceded that more research was accessible
on lumbar disc herniations’ decreasing 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 do
the same. (4) Like the author,
Pflugerville Wellness Center holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical
radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be required. Our
conservative Pflugerville chiropractic treatment may
well help healing.
CONTACT Pflugerville Wellness 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 Pflugerville chiropractic
appointment today. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc
herniation sufferers find a pain-relieving partner at our
clinic.