“What is this, doc?” A question like this is always welcome at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic. Sometimes there is a clear
answer, and sometimes there is not. It’s a great discussion
starter though. These questions usually
come up during
the examination but sometimes come up
during a chiropractic office visit. They most times
tell something helpful toward pain relief
that both your Fernandina Beach chiropractor wants for you and you want for
yourself. Interesting conditions may present
themselves via interesting symptoms like this case of cervical
spine neck pain concurrent with a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Amelia Chiropractic Clinic depends on the clinical
exam more than anything else. Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor
listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in light
of the first two. Each adds a piece of information
to the diagnostic puzzle. In a newly published chiropractic case
report, a part of the puzzle came from a strange
rash on a patient’s arm during his treatment plan 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 provoked
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) particularly 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 consultant diagnosed
as herpes zoster shingles. It
was too late for an antiviral, so 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 ease and get rid of
the arm pain, decrease the arm rash, and decrease
the neck pain by 50%. Another 4 treatments over 12 weeks resulted in 80% decreased 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 Fernandina Beach
chiropractor is always looking 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!
CONTACT Amelia Chiropractic Clinic
Check out 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 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 Fernandina Beach
chiropractic visit soon. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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!