Extradural injections and manual repositioning of spine in treatment of megalgia caused by cervical spondylotic radiculopathy.

Yishan Liu, Xia Liu, Xiangyang Zhang, Hong Zhang

Bone-setting Center by Means of Combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western Medicine, Air Force General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, Beijing 100142, China.

Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan / sponsored by All-China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2013 Feb

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To ascertain if it is effective to use extradural injections and manual repositioning of the spine to treat megalgia caused by cervical spondylotic radiculopathy (CSR). Patients with megalgia caused by CSR were divided into a treatment group (n = 46) treated by extradural injection and manual repositioning of the spine and a control group (n = 46) treated by a conventional method. The prevalence of cure was 58.69% and the total prevalence of effective cure in the treatment group was 97.83% and was 23.91% and 78.26%, respectively, in the control group: this difference between the two groups was significant (P < 0.05). Treatment of megalgia caused by CSR by extradural injections and manual repositioning of the spine has a good curative effect with rapid analgesia and short therapeutic course.

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Yishan Liu, Xia Liu, Xiangyang Zhang, Hong Zhang. Extradural injections and manual repositioning of spine in treatment of megalgia caused by cervical spondylotic radiculopathy. Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan / sponsored by All-China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. 2013 Feb;33(1):74-7