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Failure of Nonoperative Management

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Cervical myelopathy and radiculopathy can be debilitating conditions that result in significant functional impairments. As one of the more common reasons that patients seek evaluation from spinal specialists, these degenerative disorders of the cervical spine place a substantial functional, psychosocial, and economic burden upon patients. The treating physician’s goal should be the rapid diagnosis and treatment of this condition in order to help patients return to their normal state of health. Conservative, nonoperative treatments should be initiated on all patients with new-onset radiculopathy, unless there are signs of significant motor deficit or myelopathy. The objectives of these treatment strategies are pain relief, improvements in function, and prevention of recurrence.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics, Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Hamadi Murphy, Scott C. Wagner, Alex Vaccaro & Stephen Silva

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  1. Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Michael G. Kaiser

  2. Atlanta Brain and Spine Care, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Regis W. Haid

  3. Duke University Health System, Durham, NC, USA

    Christopher I. Shaffrey

  4. Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Michael G. Fehlings

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Murphy, H., Wagner, S.C., Vaccaro, A., Silva, S. (2019). Failure of Nonoperative Management. In: Kaiser, M., Haid, R., Shaffrey, C., Fehlings, M. (eds) Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy and Radiculopathy . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97952-6_11

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