Understanding Radiculopathy: Pain, Diagnosis, and Advanced Treatments

Radiculopathy is often a sharp, radiating pain that shoots from the neck into the arm or from the back down the leg, and includes a loss of feeling, tingling or “pins & needles” sensations, or weakness. These symptoms of radiculopathy are often due to a pinched nerve and impact the cervical, thoracic and lumbar areas of the back.

Nerves run throughout the body, namely down the spine and into each of our limbs. Taking this into account, there is much shared space in the spine through which the nerves travel via tiny canals. When functioning properly and without injury, the spine is a safe and protected environment for the nerves to reside. Unfortunately, the presence of a degenerative spine condition such as a disc herniation or spondylolisthesis can severely limit the space available for the nerve to travel uninhibited, which can result in radicular symptoms such as radiating pain that shoots down arms and legs.

Radiculopathy treatment and surgery

At Deuk Spine Institute, we know the spine and have treated radiculopathy patients with radiculopathy surgery, injections and physical therapy. If you are experiencing numbness in your arms or legs, shooting pain and tenderness from your upper, middle, or lower back that you cannot explain, contact Deuk Spine Institute today.

We will take a look at your spine to determine if a nerve is visibly being affected. Coupled with an EMG/NCS, a nerve test, we are able to effectively determine the severity of your radiculopathy symptoms and propose treatment options.

Our goal is to always provide the highest level of care available to our patients, which means offering a variety of radiculopathy treatments that best fit your needs.

If you are suffering from painful cervical radiculopathy, thoracic radiculopathy or lumbar radiculopathy, know that Deuk Spine Institute performs radiculopathy surgery using the latest in minimally invasive laser spine surgery, which has a 95% successful resolution of pain and the quickest recovery. We also provide nonsurgical radiculopathy treatment options as well, such as injections and/or therapy to treat severe upper, middle and lower back pain.

Are you or a loved one experiencing shooting and radiating back pain or other radiculopathy symptoms?

Deuk Spine Institute is always accepting new patient inquiries. To learn more, Contact Us or give us a call at 1-800-FIX-MY-BACK.