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Cervical Pain and Myeloradiculopathy

Pain triggered by the structures that form and function the spine such as the discs, vertebrae, facet joints, ligaments and/or paraspinal muscles located in the neck.

Burning, tingling or prickling pain that starts in the cervical region and travels through the shoulder, arm and down to the hand, usually caused by compression of some nerves responsible for providing sensitivity and mobility in upper limbs.

It is caused by inflammation of the spinal cord that passes through the neural canal, this usually occurs due to the presence of a herniated disc or narrow channel, causing weakness and altered sensitivity in hands and legs, cramps and sphincter control disorders.

The intervertebral discs are structures that separate the vertebrae and function as a shock absorber between them. A herniated disc occurs when there is an abnormal exit of the disc into the neural canal, where the nerves are stored and this is irritated by the compression of these generating inflammation of the spinal cord and nerve roots.

The neural canal is the hole located between the vertebrae and is the place through which the spinal cord and nerves that are generated from it and that go from the brain and are distributed to the arms, trunk and legs, the narrow channel occurs when the hole begins to decrease in size due to the presence of hernias, abnormal bone growth or growth of ligaments, thus causing compression and irritation of the spinal cord or nerves and generating myelopathy or radiculopathy.

It is the forward displacement of a vertebra with reference to the vertebra just below it, generating narrowness in the duct and nerves causing compression of these and the spinal cord, manifesting with symptoms in arms and legs as altered mobility or sensitivity of these.