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Johnson Chiropractic Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy

Johnson Chiropractic cares for Richmond neck pain patients due to cervical spine disc herniations that cause arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care of arm pain radiculopathy eases Richmond neck pain and arm pain non-surgically.

CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY

In setting up a treatment plan for for cervical spine-related arm pain (aka 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 different stages of pain including acute, subacute, and chronic. (1) Johnson Chiropractic considers such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment for our Richmond chiropractic patients.

GUIDELINES FOR TREATING CERVICAL DISC HERNIATIONS

In writing the non-surgical guidelines, researchers explained 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 phases, the non-surgical interventions’ guidelines shift from acute/more passive care 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 alleviates the pain were beneficial. For subacute cervical radiculopathy, enhanced specific exercises, supervised motor control motions and/or mobilization may be incorporated. In the chronic phase, patients may benefit 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 added}29}. (2) We know 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, rendering surgery needless. The researcher acknowledged that more research was accessible on the decrease 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, Johnson Chiropractic holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be required. Our conservative Richmond chiropractic treatment may well help in relieving the symptoms and pain.

CONTACT Johnson Chiropractic

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 Richmond chiropractic appointment now. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc herniation sufferers find a pain-relieving partner at our clinic.

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