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Manahawkin Chiropractic Center Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy

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

CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY

In caring for cervical spine-related arm pain (aka cervical radiculopathy), research guidelines state conservative management as a first-line treatment alternative over surgery. Clinically, cervical radiculopathy can present 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 different stages of pain including acute, subacute, and chronic. (1) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center uses such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment for our Manahawkin chiropractic patients.

GUIDELINES FOR TREATING CERVICAL DISC HERNIATIONS

In writing 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 phases, the non-surgical interventions’ guidelines shift from acute/more passive care to chronic/more active, individualized, self-managed care. Specifically, 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. 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 find that our neck and arm pain patients are ready for activities like this that get them back to living.

TIME AND THE CERVICAL DISC HERNIATION

Overall, in a recent 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 headed for cervical spine discectomy/fusion surgery for a C4-C5 disc herniation whose repeated MRI showed that the disc had resorbed, making surgery needless. The researcher acknowledged 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 act the same way. (4) Like the author, Manahawkin Chiropractic Center holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be required. Our conservative Manahawkin chiropractic treatment may well 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 describes cervical radiculopathy and its relieving care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

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

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