To treat cervical radiculopathy, a doctor may advise wearing a soft neck support to help rest the neck temporarily. To relieve mild symptoms of abdominal nerve compression, a person may simply ...

Cervical radiculopathy is a condition caused by a pinched nerve in your neck. It happens when your cervical spinal cord or nerve roots arising from it become compressed by the cervical vertebrae.

In patients with identifiable causes of nerve-root compression — for example, a herniated disk — surgical outcomes are often good. 56 Patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy are also ...

The aim of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is to remove the disk or bone spurs causing nerve compression. During the procedure, the surgeon removes the disk and bone spurs causing ...

They result in symptoms when they disrupt the function of the nerve from which they arise, or cause mass effect on adjacent structures. In this case, symptoms resulted from compression of the cervical ...

Medically reviewed by Scott Zashin, MD Neck arthritis (also known as neck osteoarthritis or cervical spondylosis) is the ...

This manoeuvre narrows the size of the neural foramen and when positive (that is, when radicular pain is elicited) can help to distinguish cervical radiculopathy from peripheral nerve entrapment ...

as well as its inability to detect disk herniation and the limited value of the finding of cervical intervertebral narrowing in predicting nerve-root or cord compression. 32 Needle ...