Comparing Two Different Cervical Collars for the Treatment in Patient With Cervical Radiculopathy and Radicular Pain

Acute neck pain is a relatively common experience that usually declines and disappears within a couple weeks. Some patients do not recover and with time develop chronic cervical pain and nerve root compression which may result in cervical radiculopathy. Far-infrared (FIR) ray is one of the topics in energy medicine which is tremendously studied for the past few years. A variety of FIR applications showed an enhancement of beneficial effects on healing therapy, even though there is limited technical approach and systemic study placed on the theoretical study of FIR ceramics processing and the emissivity optimizing. The evident difficulties in finding the appropriate cervical radiculopathy therapy initiated the current study. The aim of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of the FIR cervical collar in patients with long-lasting cervicobrachial pain; in whom the pain had a distribution that corresponded to a specific nerve root compression revealed by MRI or electrophysiological study.