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Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy

Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation cares for Carrolltown neck pain patients with cervical spine disc herniations that cause arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care of arm pain radiculopathy helps Carrolltown neck pain and arm pain sufferers experience some relief without surgery.

CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY

In managing for cervical spine-related arm pain (aka cervical radiculopathy), research guidelines state conservative management as a first-line treatment option over surgery. Clinically, cervical radiculopathy can present as motor change, paresthesia, reflex change, numbness and/or sensory change. Researchers have been collaborating to establish guidelines for its non-surgical management and treatment at various stages of pain including acute, subacute, and chronic. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation uses such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment for our Carrolltown chiropractic patients.

GUIDELINES FOR TREATING CERVICAL DISC HERNIATIONS

In presenting 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. In looking at 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 including 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 added. 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 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 – said they had 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 unnecessary. The researcher conceded that more research was available on the decrease 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 postulated that cervical disc herniations were likely to do the same. (4) Like the author, Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be required. Our conservative Carrolltown chiropractic treatment may well help healing.

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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.

Make your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment soon. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc herniation sufferers have a pain-relieving partner at our clinic.

Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation offers the Cox® Technic spinal manipulation to treat cervical radiculopathy and avert surgery.  
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