Sciatic Nerve Pain Review

by Jonathan Blood-Smyth A prolapsed disc or injury to the nerve exit foramen in the neck can give very severe neck and arm pain known as cervical radiculopathy. The sixth cervical nerve is affected in 25% of cases and the seventh in 60% of cases. Of all arm pains of neck origin, about a quarter are due to an acute disc prolapse. With age disc bulges, ligament and joint enlargement and bony osteophytes encroach on the space the nerve has to travel through and this is a more common cause of cervi

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