Cervical Spinal Canal Treatment

Symptoms

• Neck Pain: Discomfort or pain localized within the neck region, often due to muscle strain, disc issues, or nerve compression, which could affect mobility and quality of existence.
• Numbness: Sensory disturbances resulting from nerve compression in the cervical spine, frequently resulting in lack of sensation or energy within the affected limbs.
• Difficulty with Fine Motor Skills: Challenges in performing specific actions, consisting of buttoning a shirt or writing, regularly due to nerve impairment affecting hand coordination and dexterity.
• Impaired Reflexes: Reduced or absent reflex responses, indicating nerve compression or harm that disrupts regular neurological features.
• Balance and Coordination Problems: Difficulty keeping stability or coordinating actions, commonly due to spinal cord compression that impacts indicators between the brain and limbs.
• Bladder or Bowel Dysfunction (Severe Cases): Loss of manipulation over bladder or bowel capabilities, a severe symptom indicating good sized spinal wire compression requiring instant scientific attention.

Treatment 

Our Objectives 

• Enable the patient to make changes that would reduce her reliance with clinicians and medication. 
• Offer right information and advice. 
• Prevent future relapses. 

Cervical spinal canal treatment, at SpineMantra, we aim to help the patient become as independent from clinicians and medicines as possible. Thus we use the Mckenzie method which is clinically proven to offer personalized treatment procedures.

The treatment process starts with the assessment of the patient’s condition with a focus to diagnose their medical state properly. Hence, we obtain specific data about the current state of affairs, which worsens or ameliorates the outlook, and any previous pathologies. For definite findings, our clinicians proceed by administering physical examination, where kinesthesia, contour, flexibility, and sensation are assessed. 

According to the Mckenzie method, we do repeated or sustained movement testing to categorize the patient’s symptoms. This assessment enables us to identify the direction of movement that is least uncomfortable and used to design the most suitable intervention plan. 

Also, extensive importance is paid to the patient's education and self-care during the treatment. Staff and the physicians explain and encourage the patient to assume an active role in his or her recovery and prevention of future relapse with details on applicable postural changes, particular exercises, and recommended lifestyle changes to cope with the problem. 

Diagnosis

• Detailed Patient History 

The course of conducting a diagnostic is initiated by the patients’ interview to obtain comprehensive information about the patient’s health. We enquire with the patient regarding the current complaints, past history of trauma or other medical conditions, occupation, any other information. This helps in excluding any major health complications that might be assumed to be causing the symptoms and hence treat this condition appropriately. 

• Physical Examination 

After the history has been taken down, most of our clinicians proceed to perform a physical assessment. This involves evaluation of motor abilities of the patient such as the position they adopt, the flexibility they display and the neurological health. Thus if we pay close attention to the patient’s movements and reflexes then one can easily know the areas that need attention most in order to plan well on the next course of action. 

• Imaging Tests 

Sometimes, we may refer patients for other imaging studies including X-ray or MRI to get a better idea of the physical state of the spine of a patient. Such imaging procedures facilitate our ability to display any form of structural distortions or pathologies that may reside within the cervical spinal canal to explain the patient’s signs and symptoms.