“What is this, doc?” Such a
question is always welcome at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation. Sometimes there is a clear
answer, and sometimes there is not. It’s a great discussion
starter though. These queries typically
occur at some point in
the exam but sometimes occur
during a chiropractic office visit. They always
tell something useful toward pain relief
that both your Tonawanda chiropractor wants for you and you want for
yourself. Interesting conditions may present
themselves via curious symptoms like this case of cervical
spine neck pain with a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation counts on the clinical
exam more than anything else. Your Tonawanda chiropractor
listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in consideration
of the first two. Each lends a piece of data
to the diagnostic puzzle. In a newly published chiropractic case
report, a piece of the puzzle arose from a strange
rash on a patient’s arm during his care for neck and arm pain.
His story involves coughing, fatigue, and congestion
that led him to his primary care doctor. He got an
influenza and pneumococcal vaccine. The coughing prompted
some neck pain that led this 43 year old male to his
chiropractor for the neck pain that was explained as constant,
sharp neck pain on the left with an aching, tingling sensation extending
into his left arm (radiculopathy) specifically into
his left lateral arm, forearm, thumb and index finger. Clinical symptoms indicated a diagnosis of a C5-6 disc herniation, a very common
cervical disc herniation level. Soon after, he noticed
a rash on his left arm that his medical doctor diagnosed
as herpes zoster shingles. It
was too late for an antiviral, so he took ibuprofen for the shingles pain. He experienced 5 cervical spine
treatments following the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management cervical spine protocols in 5 weeks to ease and get rid of
the arm pain, reduce the arm rash, and decrease
the neck pain by 50%. Another 4 treatments over 12 weeks brought
about 80% less neck pain, complete
resolution of left arm pain, and faint shingles rash. The patient felt he was back to normal. (1) Talk about unusual! Your Tonawanda
chiropractor is always on the lookout for
the unusual and prepared to respond with an exam-based diagnosis
and an alleviating treatment plan for Tonawanda neck
pain and back pain!
CONTACT Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
Check out this PODCAST
with Dr. Steven Baroody on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he described
how his patient who presented to the office with severe,
long-standing shoulder pain was treated for shoulder pain with
no relief. Dr. Baroody’s exam found a cervical disc herniation as
a cause for his pain. It’s not surprising, then, that
the other treatments resulted in no relief! Dr. Baroody treated
the patient with the pain-relieving Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. Relieving care always
starts with the proper diagnosis!
Set your next Tonawanda
chiropractic visit today. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation will do
the proper examination to come up with the
proper diagnosis to deliver the best clinical outcome likely for
usual and unusual causes of back pain and neck pain. See you
soon!
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