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cervical spine syndrome (cervicobrachial syndrome, shoulder-arm syndrome, cervical vertebral syndrome)
Definition of
Heterogeneous clinical picture with variable sensory, motor and vegetative-trophic disorders in the neck, shoulder girdle and upper extremities inf. Irritations of the PNS or local circulatory disorders
ICD M53
Cause
– traumatic causes
- Whiplash
- traumatic plexus lesion
– Disposing diseases of the musculoskeletal system
- Syringomyelia
- Cheiralgia paraesthetica (Wartenberg syndrome)
- Arm plexus paralysis (upper C4-C6, middle C5-C6, lower C7/C8-Th1)
- cervical prolapse
- WS affections
- Muscular atrophy (especially neurogenic) of the neck muscles
- Borderline quadrant syndrome (lesion of the ganglion chains on both sides of the spinal cord)
- Grinsel syndrome
- Cervical migraine
- Periarthropathia humeroscapularis (PHS)
- Thoracic outlet syndrome (neurovascular compression syndrome of the upper thoracic aperture)
- Neuralgic shoulder myopathy
- Spondylosis
- Spondylarthrosis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Complex regional pain syndrome(sympathetic reflex dystrophy, complex regional pain syndrome CRPS)
– Dispositional diseases: other
- Zoster
- Diseases of internal organs (e.g. Pancoast, aortic arch syndrome, subclavian steal syndrome)
- Tumor infestation of the brachial plexus
- Neurinoma of the supplying nerves
- Meningeosis neoplastica
Diagnosis
- X-ray
- CT
- MRI
Symptoms
- Pain in the arm
Therapy
- If possible, cause
- Symptomatic pain therapy
- No permanent chiropractic intervention!
- Acupuncture
- Heat
- Massage