- Pain radiates from your neck through to your arm or hand which could be related to a compression of the nerve roots at the neck (cervical) region of your spine.
- The pain may range from being mild to severe. Some people experience it like an electric shock.
- The pain is often aggravated by coughing, sneezing or moving the neck.
- Some people have numbness, tingling or weakness in the affected arm or hand.
Treatment for Cervico-brachial pain
Initial conservative treatment may help which includes medications, such as anti-inflammatories, painkillers and muscle relaxants, physical therapy, pain clinic and spinal injections.
If the patient does not improves with conservative treatment, our spinal surgeons can proceed with the required surgical treatment to improve the neck problem due to cervical disc herniation, protrusion or related problem.
The main indications for surgery for cases of cervical disc problem, like disc herniation, bone spurs and stenosis, are the following: significant and persistent pain to the arm and/or hand, weakness of the upper limb, similar symptoms affecting the limbs, loss of body movements (compression of the spinal cord).
The spine surgeon usually uses a microsurgical technique to decompress the nerve and/or spinal cord, remove the affected disc, and replace the disc.
There are other cases where the surgery is performed through the back part of the neck, for posterior decompression and fixation, according to the case.
