Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy
Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic welcomes Montreal neck pain patients due to cervical spine disc herniations that trigger arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care of arm pain radiculopathy helps Montreal neck pain and arm pain sufferers find some relief without surgery.
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 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 various stages of pain including acute, subacute, and chronic. (1) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic uses such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment for our Montreal 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 favorable than for non-surgical, conservative care. When studying the care of cervical radiculopathy through its stages, 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 involving spinal manipulation, patient education, exercise, and positioning that eases the pain were effective. For subacute cervical radiculopathy, enhanced 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 included}29}. (2) We know that our neck and arm pain patients are ready for activities like this that allow them to return 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 – experienced 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, rendering surgery needless. 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 resorption of the disc in 43% to 75% yet contended that cervical disc herniations were apt to do the same. (4) Like the author, Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be necessary. Our conservative Montreal chiropractic treatment will quite possibly 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.
Schedule your Montreal chiropractic appointment now. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc herniation sufferers find a pain-relieving partner at our office.
