If you have pain, numbness, or tingling in your back or running down an arm or leg, you might have ridiculitis. Chiropractors taken care of people with this condition for over 100 years. This study provides scientific evidence for anyone with these symptoms to consider, particularly if they've had the symptoms for more than just a few weeks.
“Radiculopathy is caused by a pinched nerve in your spine. More specifically, it happens when one of your nerve roots (where your nerves join your spinal column) is compressed or irritated. You might also see it referred to as radiculitis. Radiculopathy will cause the area around your pinched nerve to feel painful, numb or tingly.”
(Accessed 19 Nov 2023) https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22564-radiculopathy
Just in case you are not familiar with these terms, acute means “characterised by sharpness or severity of sudden onset, having a rapid or short duration, or being marked by keen awareness or perception.” The word chronic means “continuing or occurring again and again for a long time chronic pain chronic illness chronic” (Miriam Webster dictionary Nov 2023)
This study returned decisive results. 86.5% of the spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) patients reported, “clinically relevant improvement at 3 months compared with 49.0% of cervical nerve root injection (CNRI) patients.” Interestingly, there were some differences depending on whether the patient was acute or subacute/chronic. The two groups were comparable when it came to acute patients. But when evaluating the subacute/chronic patients alone, “78.3% of the SMT patients reported clinically relevant improvement at 3 months, compared with 37.5% of CNRI patients.” Click here to read more.
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Reference:
Peterson, C., Pfirrman, C.., Hodler, J., Schmid, C., Anklin B., and Humphreys, K., (2016). Symptomatic, magnetic resonance imaging-confirmed cervical disk herniation patients: a comparative-effectiveness prospective observational study of 2 age- and sex-matched cohorts treated with either imaging-guided indirect cervical nerve root injections or spinal manipulative therapy. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. Vol. 39, Iss. 3., P210-217, March 2016, DOI 10.1016/j.jmpt.2016.02.004.