Cervical foraminal stenosis is the pinching of nerves as they exit the neck area. A pinched nerve can cause radiculopathy. This is a common cause of radicular pain. Radiculopathy can go to the back of the neck, trapezius muscle, shoulder, forearm and into your fingers. This can be important when treating the cause of radiculopathy Official Center for Artificial Disc Replacement . Brachial radiculopathy and cervical radiculopathy are medical terms to describe the pattern of pain you experience. For instance, you may have two or more herniated discs, spinal bone spurs, and/or foraminal stenosis, in multiple locations, but only one may actually be causing you pain . We would want to treat the painful one. Cervical foraminal stenosis can be treated directly with a laminectomy or a foraminotomy. The pattern of the radiculopathy can tell us which one it is. But if there is concomitant cervical degenerative disc disease, an artificial disc replacement may be the best treatment option.