Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Cares for Cervical Disc Herniations and Related Radiculopathy

Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office takes care of Groton neck pain patients with cervical spine disc herniations that cause arm pain radiculopathy. Non-surgical care of arm pain radiculopathy helps Groton neck pain and arm pain sufferers experience some relief without surgery.

CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY

In caring for cervical spine-related arm pain known as cervical radiculopathy, research guidelines describe conservative management as a first-line treatment option over surgery. Clinically, cervical radiculopathy can present as numbness, paresthesia, motor change, reflex change and/or sensory change. Researchers have been working to establish guidelines for its non-surgical management and treatment at different stages of pain including acute, subacute, and chronic. (1) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office considers such guidelines in planning non-surgical treatment for our Groton 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 promising than for non-surgical, conservative care. When studying the care of cervical radiculopathy through its stages, the non-surgical interventions’ guidelines move 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 beneficial. For subacute cervical radiculopathy, enhanced specific exercises, supervised motor control motions and/or mobilization may be incorporated. For chronic pain, general aerobic exercise and strength training, postural instruction, and ergonomic assessment of job-related activities may be included}29}. (2) We understand that our neck and arm pain patients appreciate 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 – 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, 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 resolution of the disc in 43% to 75% yet contended that cervical disc herniations were likely to do the same. (4) Like the author, Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office holds out hope for our cervical disc herniation and cervical radiculopathy patients that surgery may not be required. Our conservative Groton chiropractic treatment will quite possibly help in relieving the symptoms and pain.

CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office

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 Groton chiropractic appointment today. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical disc herniation sufferers find a pain-relieving partner at our office.

Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office offers the Cox® Technic spinal manipulation to treat cervical radiculopathy and avert surgery.  
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