Cervical Radicular Pain

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    Cervical Radicular Pain

    by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP)

    GENERAL Cervical radicular pain is the pain caused by irritation or inflammation or injury of a cervical spine nerve. The pain is located in the upper arm ipsilateral to the lesion and is acute, stabbing, electric shock-like. (3,4) Cervical radicular pain has to be differentiated from cervical radiculopathy. In radiculopathy there is objective sensory or/and [...]