Cervical radiculopathy is a reduction in the function of your nerve root. The main effect is pain that radiates from the cervical spine to the back and other limbs. Muscles are difficult to control, and limbs are too weak to move properly. Manage your pain for radiculopathy with the help of neck and spine professionals. Innovative Pain Solutions can treat your pain and provide therapy to strengthen your function.
Pain Management Doctors Explain Cervical Radiculopathy
Cervical radiculopathy is the malfunction of cervical spine nerves at the nerve root. The nerves are inflamed or irritated to the point of causing minor to severe radicular pain and impairing movement. The main causes include a herniated disc, spinal stenosis, or degenerative disc disease.
In many cases, the pain radiates from the cervical spine to the back, arms, shoulders or hands. Like most nerve-related diseases, you feel numbness, weakness, and tingling in the nerves of your body. Your mobility becomes more difficult and your coordination becomes poor.
If not treated, the pain may worsen and spread to additional parts of your body. Treating the symptoms with do-it-yourself treatments is not guaranteed to work for your situation. Pain management doctors are trained to diagnose the problem properly and find a specialized treatment plan for each patient.
Rehab
Pain management doctors have several treatments that are designed to improve function in your nerve root. Minor cases of radiculopathy are resolved with an increase in rest and a decrease in strenuous physical activity. Hot and cold therapies are also effective in short-term pain relief.
Chiropractic and physical therapy are long-term treatments that restore movements in impaired muscles. Over time, you learn to move the body more freely and feel less pain. Spinal manipulation is used to treat the back or neck pain that accompanies cervical radiculopathy. The reduction in physical pain also leads to psychological improvements.
The stabilization method includes a wide range of exercises that restore damaged parts of your cervicothoracic region. Doctors may recommend the use of back or neck braces during treatment. The team at Innovative Pain Solutions is able to adjust your plan based on your strengths and abilities as a patient.
Medication is often used to treat pain in cervical radiculopathy. Steroids or anti-inflammatory drugs are consumed or injected through epidural administration.
Surgery
Pain management doctors turn to surgery as the last option to manage severe pain. Taking rehabilitation treatments is preferred, but if your situation does not improve, surgery is recommended. Surgeons may perform a discectomy to remove a herniated disc from your nerve root or a laminotomy to remove part of your vertebral arch. A foraminotomy is performed to remove disc material in the intervertebral foramina. All of the procedures are designed to reduce pressure on the nerve root and spinal cord.
Contact Innovative Pain Solutions
Cervical radiculopathy is a condition that is treatable if you take the problem seriously and get immediate assistance from qualified doctors. Innovative Pain Solutions has a wide range of treatment plans available for patients suffering from back, neck and spine problems. Radiculopathy is diagnosed, treated and prevented only with the help of their medical expertise.
Call Innovative Pain Solutions today to meet with Dr. Kalia and talk about how best to treat your condition.
