Hello everyone, we are here to share the contest for week 3 of Steemit learning challenge season 21. I am pleased to announce that I selected for steemit learning challenge season 21, thankful to Steemit team for this opportunity. I invite all the users to share their unique participation and try to gain maximum grades to get selected as the winner of steemit engagement challenge season 21 week 3. ![Brown Simple Minimalist Daily Exercise Youtube Thumbnail_20241110_205550_0000.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdJjLB3JNPz6P8oZuA21EY8KWjXrUnrNpRYRYMY6JWqK4/Brown%20Simple%20Minimalist%20Daily%20Exercise%20Youtube%20Thumbnail_20241110_205550_0000.png) [Canva](https://www.canva.com/design/DAGUxXwBICw/E-__H3TCP5U0mzaffF_3bg/edit?utm_content=DAGUxXwBICw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton) Cervical radiculopathy is the radiating pain in one or both upper extremities due to compression or irritation in one or more cervical nerve roots. The pain may be acute or chronic depending on the patient's duration of pain initiation. The commonly involved nerve root values are C6 and C7. Mainly, incidence occurs in 50 or more years. We have 7 vertebrae in the cervical region, and it's the sensitive region where compression can cause severe damage. But we have 8 cervical nerve roots. Any damage to the cervical nerve root or vertebrate can lead to cervical radiculopathy, or any other disease. C6, C7 perform wrist extension and flexion respectively. ## Symptoms The common symptoms related to cervical radiculopathy are radiating pain, numbness, and tingling sensation that travels from neck to arm and hand region. Sometimes, patients feel severe pain and numbness in their hands and fingers, and they are unable to perform any work. ## Causes Cervical radiculopathy can be caused by * Disc herniation * Compression fracture * Osteoarthritic changes * Spondylosis * Biochemically induced radiculopathy * Trauma * Tumor ## Assessment For the assessment of cervical radiculopathy, we perform the following investigations to make the diagnosis. * NCS * MRI * CT scan * EMG In physiotherapy, we perform some special tests to confirm the diagnosis. The first one is the spurling test which provoke pain, the shoulder abduction test that relieve pain; and the cervical spine tests. ### Physical Therapy Intervention for Cervical Radiculopathy Physical therapy intervention for cervical radiculopathy are from weeks to months to regain normal ranges and subside pain with movement or at rest. Here are the few exercises videos that you have to perform to treat cervical radiculopathy patients. Treatment protocol vary from patient to patient. But the main thing is you have to evaluate the exact cause of cervical radiculopathy either it's age related or trauma.

### Isometric Neck Flexion This the exercise to strengthen muscles around your neck especially muscles that help in neck flexion, also improve your neck flexion.

https://youtu.be/WnKcq1Uh8m4?si=QS-F-ZRTWkuYyHXz

### Isometric Cervical Rotation This exercise is perform to improve neck rotation as patient feel difficult to complete the range of motion due to pain and restricted ROM. Perform this exercise on both sides right & left to improve rotation on both sides. https://youtu.be/tbNtU66KzmE?si=n6Ot93mMR4JDJwSV

### Isometric Neck Extension Isometric Neck Extension are perform to improve neck extension as sometimes it's difficult to extend your neck due to pain your ROM is restricted. Also muscles need strengthening.

https://youtu.be/iCiOE7pKVRk?si=lOAtBrBgZlb6OjCV

### Isometrics Neck Retraction Isometric Neck Retraction is the exercise in which patient use arms muscles along with neck muscles. It's also a stretch of pectoralis major muscle as we place our arms behind the head.

https://youtu.be/RuuaGAnbhtE?si=tVAqcYaf3cUBCJRi

### Trapezoius, Scalene, Levator Scapulae Stretch These are the best exercise to relieve pain and improve your shortened muscles as muscles reduced their length in pain phase to compensate. You can perform any of 2 stretches for your weekly lesson.

https://youtu.be/-r0eoFS7_5Q?si=bNAHIFojK2AIUo0q https://youtu.be/_f0jjpWp9NA?si=7J2vDEHzxZss3n6z

5 to 10 minutes heat up before exercise is necessary as muscles relax after heating then you can perform exercise easily. Also do soft tissue mobilization before performing these exercises to reduce pain. Perform 5, 5 repetitions on first week then increase accordingly. These are the exercises for beginners as other exercises can by performed by professionals and experienced physiotherapist or gym trainer. |Homework Task| |-| - What's Cervical Radiculopathy? Write in your own words after getting knowledge from the lesson post. - How would you diagnose a Cervical Radiculopathy? Any clinical investigation or assessment tests? - Try to practice at least 3 exercises that you have learned from the lesson. Share images, gifs or videos while practising. - Share your review after performing these exercises either on yourself, healthy individual or patient. ![divider1.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPwjhwDMeGJ2fBB2hsx2V682SGUJ1YTbozk6NqmM83vWn/divider1.png) |Guidelines| |-| *** - You are free to post in any community. - All country members are allowed. You can write your post in any language. - Plagiarism will not be supported. Content should be free of AI. (Content must be **steemexclusive**). - The Title of the Post should be **Steemit Learning Challenge-S21W3; Cervical Radiculopathy"** - The tags are, #pti-s21w3 (the main tag must use in your post), #physicaltherapy, #learningchallange others tags are like your country as Pakistan, club status as club100, and #steemexclusive. - Try to use your pictures, videos or git to represent homework tasks. - Mention my username @ashkhan in your participation post. - Invite your 3 friends to participate in our contest. Upvote and Redeem the contest post so that more users participate in this and upvote. - Share your participation link under the comment section of this post. - Share your post on Twitter by adding a little information about your post and a specific hashtag like fashion, and share link on your post comment section. - **Contest will start at 00:00 (UTC) Monday 11th November 2024, and end at 23:59 (UTC) Sunday 17th November 2024.** - Subscribe to [Steem Physio & Rehab](https://steemit.com/trending/hive-127432) to share your physical therapy related content there. ### Reward **All 4 winners post will be rewarded by Sc01/Sc02.** > Each week we would like all Teaching Teams to make a post announcing the 4 people who have produced the best responses to the assignments and challenges. The selection of the 4 should be based solely on the quality of their post. Number of comments is no longer a factor to be considered. Cc, @stephenkendal @pennsif