Old Mill Chiropractic Diagnoses Underlying Causes of Neck Pain and Arm Pain and Delivers Pain Relieving Care
“What’s this, doc?” Such a question is always welcome at Old Mill Chiropractic. Sometimes there is a clear answer, and sometimes there is not. It’s a terrific starting point though. These questions usually come up in the course of the exam but occasionally occur during a chiropractic treatment visit. They always disclose something useful toward pain relief that both your St Peters chiropractor wants for you and you want for yourself. Interesting conditions may show themselves via curious symptoms like this case of cervical spine neck pain with a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Old Mill Chiropractic relies on the clinical exam more than anything else. Your St Peters chiropractor listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in light of the first two. Each lends a piece of info 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 encompasses 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 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, the most common cervical disc herniation level. Later on, he noted a rash on his left arm that his medical consultant 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 decrease the neck pain by 50%. Another 4 treatments in 3 months resulted in 80% decreased neck pain, complete resolution of left arm pain, and faint shingles rash. The patient expressed that he was back to normal. (1) Talk about unusual! Your St Peters chiropractor is constantly on the lookout for the unusual and prepared to respond with an exam-based diagnosis and an alleviating treatment plan for St Peters neck pain and back pain!
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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 doctored for shoulder pain with no relief. Dr. Baroody’s exam revealed 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!
Make your next St Peters chiropractic visit today. Old Mill Chiropractic will perform the appropriate examination to come up with the proper diagnosis to deliver the best clinical outcome possible for usual and unusual causes of back pain and neck pain. Visit us soon!
