Amelia Chiropractic Clinic Diagnoses Underlying Causes of Neck Pain and Arm Pain and Delivers Pain Relieving Care
“What is this, doc?” Such a question is always welcome at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic. Sometimes there is a clear answer, and sometimes there is not. It is a terrific discussion starter though. These questions usually surface in the course of the exam but sometimes occur during a chiropractic treatment visit. They always tell something useful toward pain relief that both your Fernandina Beach chiropractor wants for you and you want for yourself. Interesting conditions may reveal themselves via curious symptoms like this case of cervical spine neck pain and a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Amelia Chiropractic Clinic relies on the clinical exam more than anything else. Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in consideration of the first two. Each adds a bit of data to the diagnostic puzzle. In a recent chiropractic case report, a part of the puzzle came from a peculiar 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 received an influenza and pneumococcal vaccine. The coughing triggered some neck pain that took this 43 year old man to his chiropractor for the neck pain that was described as constant, sharp neck pain on the left with an aching, tingling sensation down 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, the most common cervical disc herniation level. Soon after, he noticed a rash on his left arm that his medical doctor identified as herpes zoster shingles. It was too late for an antiviral, so he took ibuprofen for the pain related to shingles. 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 lessen the neck pain by 50%. Another 4 treatments over 12 weeks brought about 80% reduced 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 Fernandina Beach chiropractor is constantly on the lookout for the unusual and ready to respond with an exam-based diagnosis and a relieving treatment plan for Fernandina Beach 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 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 causing 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 must start with the proper diagnosis!
Set your next Fernandina Beach chiropractic visit today. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic will do the appropriate 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!
