Cervical radiculopathy: Nonoperative management of neck pain and radicular symptoms

American Family Physician

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-40

  Eubanks, Jason David ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; STEROID; TRAMADOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DECOMPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; HEART DISEASE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INCIDENCE; INJURY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYELOGRAPHY; NECK PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE ROOT; NEURALGIC AMYOTROPHY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPHYTE; PARESTHESIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RADICULOPATHY; RADIOGRAPHY; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; THERAPY EFFECT; THORAX OUTLET SYNDROME; TRACTION THERAPY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 75749148790     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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