What Is the First-Line Treatment for Cervical Spondylosis?
Cervical spondylosis is a degenerative condition of the cervical spine. The primary clinical goal of management is relief of neck pain.
First-Line Management
First-line care is conservative, centred on a multimodal, patient-specific physical therapy programme combined with analgesia as required.
The complete structured regimen — including programme components, their sequencing, and the full clinical algorithm — is available in the full protocol.
DOI: 10.1093/rap/rkaf127
First-line management is usually conservative, in the form of physical therapies.
The first line management of mechanical neck pain and cervical spondylosis is conservative, usually in the form of physical therapies and analgesia as required.
Clinical practice guidelines as well as systematic reviews, not surprisingly, confirm the superiority of a multimodal approach.
They range from support, empathy and education to methods to achieve pain relief, training of neuromuscular and sensorimotor function as well as self-management strategies and strategies for maintenance and lessening/preventing recurrent episodes into the future.
Pain relief is understandably the goal of many patients when seeking treatment and the primary outcome of most clinical trials.
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