Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre treats Toronto neck pain patients with cervical spine disc herniations that cause arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care of arm pain radiculopathy eases Toronto neck pain and arm pain non-surgically.
CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY
In managing 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 collaborating to establish guidelines for its non-surgical management and treatment at different stages of pain including acute, subacute, and chronic. (1) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre considers such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment for our Toronto 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. When studying the 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. Specifically, for the acute stage, multimodal management including spinal manipulation, patient education, exercise, and positioning that eases the pain were effective. 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 allow them to return to living.
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 described 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 unnecessary. The researcher conceded 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 apt to do the same. (4) Like the author, Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be necessary. Our conservative Toronto 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.
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