Radiculopathy Treatment
Radiculopathy treatment at Total Spine Institute helps you:
- Relieve nerve compression pain in the neck, back, arms, or legs
- Restore movement and strength affected by pinched or irritated nerves
- Reduce numbness, tingling, and weakness with targeted care
- Avoid surgery when possible through advanced, minimally invasive therapies
- Get back to your life with a personalized treatment plan that works
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- Build muscle and burn fat without surgery
- Strengthen core muscles to improve posture, balance, and stability
- Boost athletic performance and speed recovery
- Reverse age-related muscle loss
- Improve overall strength, mobility, and function
- Relieve nerve compression pain in the neck, back, arms, or legs
- Restore movement and strength affected by pinched or irritated nerves
- Reduce numbness, tingling, and weakness with targeted care
- Avoid surgery when possible through advanced, minimally invasive therapies
- Get back to your life with a personalized treatment plan that works
Radiculopathy Treatment
Targeted Solutions for Pinched Nerves, Tingling, and Numbness
Radiculopathy occurs when a spinal nerve becomes compressed or irritated, causing symptoms that travel away from the spine. Depending on the location of the affected nerve root, discomfort may radiate into the arms or legs and present as pain, tingling, numbness, or inflammation in the neck or lower back. While some cases improve naturally over time, others may require intervention through physical therapy, pain-relief injections, or surgical treatment to alleviate symptoms and restore function.
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What Is Radiculopathy?
Radiculopathy occurs when the root of a nerve in the spine becomes irritated or compressed. The root of a nerve is the portion that connects to the spinal column. Your radiculopathy may fall into one of the following three categories, depending on where it’s located:
- Lumbar radiculopathy: This occurs in the lumbar region of the spine (in the lower back).
- Thoracic radiculopathy: Pain from thoracic radiculopathy occurs in the upper-mid back.
- Cervical radiculopathy: If you have this type of radiculopathy, your symptoms occur primarily in the neck.
Symptoms of Radiculopathy
Radiculopathy symptoms may vary by person and location. However, this condition commonly causes:
- Tingling in the extremities
- Numbness in the surrounding area
- Pain, which may radiate away from the affected nerve
- Muscle weakness
- Impaired reflexes in the extremities
How Is Radiculopathy Treated?
To effectively treat radiculopathy, one must identify and address the source of the symptoms. We may recommend starting off with a combination of pain relief medication and physical therapy. In some cases, we may also recommend lifestyle changes to help relieve pressure and inflammation on the spine.
Conservative treatment methods sometimes fail to relieve pain. When this happens, we may recommend pain relief injections or minimally invasive surgery. These treatments often lead to long-lasting pain relief when other methods fail to produce the results you want.
Pain injections contain cortisone (steroids) and an anesthetic to relieve discomfort. They use real-time ultrasound imaging to administer treatments with a high degree of precision.
PRP injections are commonly utilized to treat radiculopathy and stimulate healing. This treatment involves collecting a sample of blood from the patient. Then, we use a centrifuge to divide healing platelets and plasma from the rest of the blood. We then take the concentrated healing blood components and inject them into the affected area. This treatment can reduce pain and trigger optimal healing.
Why Choose Total Spine Institute
Our Providers
Andrew Fox, M.D.
Neuro Spine Surgeon
Ryan Derby, M.D.
Pain Medicine Physician
Ryan Mattie, M.D.
Pain Management
Cheri Geist, PA-C, MPAP, FAAPA
Physician Assistant
Dr. John Michael Holmes
Pain Management
Dr. James Silverthorn
Neuro Spine Surgeon
David Pilkington, DO
Interventional Pain Management Physician
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Radiculopathy FAQs
When Is Surgery Necessary for Radiculopathy?
You may need surgery for radiculopathy if you have long-lasting or severe symptoms. We typically only recommend surgery after nonsurgical treatments fail.
How Can Physical Therapy Help With Radiculopathy?
Physical therapy may help with radiculopathy by strengthening the muscles around the affected spinal nerves and restoring natural movement. Increasing your spinal flexibility and core strength through physical therapy can also relieve pinched nerve pain.
How Long Does It Take to Recover From Radiculopathy Treatment?
Your recovery timeline depends on the type of treatment you receive and the severity of your symptoms. There’s no recovery time associated with treatments like pain relief injections or physical therapy. However, recovering from minimally invasive surgery may take a few weeks.
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