Hollstrom & Associates Inc Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy
Hollstrom & Associates Inc welcomes Largo neck pain patients with cervical spine disc herniations that cause arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care of arm pain radiculopathy eases Largo 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 state conservative management as a first-line treatment option over surgery. Clinically, cervical radiculopathy can pose 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) Hollstrom & Associates Inc considers such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment for our Largo 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 beneficial than for non-surgical, conservative care. In looking at care of cervical radiculopathy through its stages, the non-surgical interventions’ guidelines shift from acute/more passive care to more active, individualized, self-managed care in the chronic phase. Particularly, for the acute stage, multimodal management including spinal manipulation, patient education, exercise, and positioning that eases 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 understand that our neck and arm pain patients are ready for 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 – described motor deficits before 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 disc resorbed on a confirming repeat MRI, making surgery needless. The researcher conceded 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, Hollstrom & Associates Inc holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be required. Our conservative Largo 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 Largo chiropractic appointment soon. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc herniation sufferers experience a pain-relieving partner at our clinic.
