Neck Pain
Wake up with neck pain, pain can travel down into the arm, and you feel more pain when rotating your head to the painful side, not able to rotate your head all the way into the painful side, you are then recognized to have cervical nerve impingement and it’s treatable with physiotherapy.
Why Rehab?
Because we can combat this inflammation with cervical spine mobilization and nerve sliding technique by increasing mobility of the nerve itself hence desensitizing the nerve which helps to disperse inflammation around the nerve and get you out of neck pain. Also, a successful cervical impingement treatment leaves you less chance to develop arthritis osteophytes which lead to future nerve root irritation.
Recovery Time
Cervical nerve impingement recovery time, it’s essentially the sciatica of the upper limb, by which your cervical disc and cervical nerve root are inflamed. 3~4 sessions of manual therapy in the first 2 weeks should be able to get you out of pain largely, and allow you to rotate your head to the symptomatic side. Next, neck strength exercises and motor control can be the interventions to minimize risk of recurrence of your neck pain.
Treatment Approach
Cervical SNAG with self mobilization
Cervical facet joint upglide
Cervical Impingement
- Cervical traction
- Lateral glide
- Nerve slider