West Des Moines Chiropractic Non-Surgical Relief for a Disc Herniation in the Neck

Guidelines are part of healthcare today. There are best-evidence guidelines for everything from how to manage arthritis to heart disease to neck pain. There are best-evidence guidelines for most professions from allergy and immunology to urology. Chiropractic care is in the mix as is back pain and neck pain management. Such guidelines present a base for physicians like your West Des Moines chiropractor to practice and West Des Moines chiropractic patients to recognize that  they are being treated with the best evidenced care. Healthcare guidelines continue to evolve, and guidelines for neck pain due to cervical disc herniation indicate an 8 to 12 week wait before surgical intervention which is just enough time for West Des Moines chiropractic care at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa to potentially thwart West Des Moines back surgery for many.

In Europe, national guidelines for the non-surgical care of recent start neck pain or cervical radiculopathy (arm pain) are presented:  Supervised exercise with manual therapy. Exercise and manual therapy before medicine for neck pain. Acupuncture for neck pain. Traction for cervical radiculopathy. NSAIDs (oral or topical) and tramadol after careful consideration for both neck pain and cervical radiculopathy.  The guidelines also propose telling the patient about warning signs, prognosis and advice to be active along with treatment.  (1) Good advice! Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is committed to West Des Moines chiropractic patient education. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa makes sure West Des Moines patients know their spinal condition, understand the treatment plan to relieve the pain, and accept their role in achieving, keeping and holding onto the relief so that they do not have to suffer with arm pain or neck pain any longer than they have to or need to undergo West Des Moines neck surgery.

A study of Dutch neurosurgeons shows30 that 76.3% of them implement the anterior cervical discectomy with fusion for cervical spine disc herniation surgeries. This means that they reach the cervical spine via the front of the neck, not the back. This surgical approach has a higher risk for complications than just an anterior cervical discectomy, but the surgeons think it to be more helpful for arm pain relief. Considering the risk, fortunately, the surgeons seek a minimum of 8 to 12 weeks of radicular arm pain in a patient in advance of a neck surgery. (2) That offers West Des Moines chiropractic care just enough time to lessen West Des Moines neck pain.

In 8 weeks, West Des Moines chiropractic care at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa with Cox Technic can do wonders! In a retrospective review of 39 patients treated with Cox Technic protocols for cervical spine in patients with cervical radiculopathy (arm pain), only 13.2 treatment visits were required to give patients arm pain relief. (3) In 10 weeks, Cox Technic produces a good clinical outcome that lasts! A 2 year follow up with a patient who had a C6-7 cervical disc herniation with radiculopathy arm pain revealed that subjective and objective signs or relief were steady. (4) In conservative medicine, 83% patients with symptomatic cervical spine disc herniation with radiculopathy recover in about 24 to 36 months with the most progress toward pain relief happening in the first 4 to 6 months. (5) [companyname]] embraces the challenge of West Des Moines neck pain with radiculopathy with this knowledge and positively deals with neck pain and arm pain due to cervical disc herniation with pain relief as the end result. The West Des Moines treatment plan for cervical spine pain is ready for you!

Schedule a West Des Moines chiropractic appointment today at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa for neck pain and arm pain evaluation and West Des Moines neck pain relieving non-surgical chiropractic treatment.