“What’s this, doc?” Such a
question is always welcome at Chiropractic Care. Sometimes there is a clear
answer, and sometimes there is not. It is a great starting point though. These inquiries usually
turn up in the course of
the examination but occasionally occur
during a chiropractic treatment visit. They always
tell something useful toward pain relief
that both your West Palm Beach chiropractor wants for you and you want for
yourself. Curious conditions may present
themselves via interesting symptoms like this case of cervical
spine neck pain with a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Chiropractic Care depends on the clinical
exam more than anything else. Your West Palm Beach chiropractor
listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in light
of the first two. Each provides a piece of information
to the diagnostic puzzle. In a recent chiropractic case
report, a part of the puzzle arose from a strange
rash on a patient’s arm during his care for neck and arm pain.
His story encompasses coughing, fatigue, and congestion
that guided him to his primary care doctor. He got an
influenza and pneumococcal vaccine. The coughing provoked
some neck pain that took this 43 year old man to his
chiropractor for the neck pain that was explained as constant,
sharp neck pain on the left with an aching, tingling sensation down his left arm (radiculopathy) particularly into
his left lateral arm, forearm, thumb and index finger. Clinical symptoms lead
to a diagnosis of a C5-6 disc herniation, a very common
cervical disc herniation level. Soon after, he noted
a rash on his left arm that his medical doctor diagnosed
as herpes zoster shingles. Since it was too late to take an antiviral he took ibuprofen for the shingles pain. He underwent 5 cervical spine
treatments following the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management cervical spine protocols in 5 weeks to resolve
the arm pain, reduce the arm rash, and lessen
the neck pain by 50%. Another 4 treatments over 12 weeks resulted in 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 West Palm Beach
chiropractor is constantly looking for
the unusual and ready to respond with an exam-based diagnosis
and a relieving treatment plan for West Palm Beach neck
pain and back pain!
CONTACT Chiropractic Care
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Steven Baroody on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he described
how his patient who came 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 causing pain. No wonder
the other treatments gave him no relief! Dr. Baroody treated
the patient with the pain-relieving Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. Relieving care must start with the correct diagnosis!
Make your next West Palm Beach
chiropractic visit today. Chiropractic Care will perform
the proper examination to suitable the
proper diagnosis to deliver the best clinical outcome possible for
usual and unusual causes of back pain and neck pain. See you
soon!
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