Murphy I am often asked by chiropractors, medical doctors and patients if manipulation of the cervical spine is safe in the presence of a cervical herniated nucleus pulposis (CHNP). ... The anatomy of the cervical disc is different than the lumbar disc...
Cervical radiculopathy refers to radiating pain into the arms that originates in the cervical spine...as a herniated disc or an osteophytic bone spur that is pressing on the nerve as it exits the spinal cord...