A review of evaluation scales for therapeutic effect of cervical spondylotic radiculopathy

: Various kinds of therapies have been clinically applied to treat cervical spondylotic radiculopathy (CSR). However, the evaluation standards of therapeutic effect in different medical institutions are quite different from each other at present, thus bringing about many difficulties in the therapeutic effect evaluation of CSR treatment. Although many CSR-related scales have been developed, none of them could completely represent or reflect the exact curative actualities of CSR in China. Therefore, it is quite essential to establish a comprehensive evaluation scale for the therapeutic effect of CSR. And such evaluation system, in which the estimation of quality of life should be included, will become the developmental direction of CSR research in future.