Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka 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 Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka. Sometimes there is a clear answer, and sometimes there is not. It’s a great discussion starter though. These queries usually come up at some point in the exam but sometimes surface during a chiropractic office visit. They always tell something useful toward pain relief that both your Sitka chiropractor wants for you and you want for yourself. Curious conditions may reveal themselves via curious symptoms like this case of cervical spine neck pain with a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka depends on the clinical exam more than anything else. Your Sitka chiropractor listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in light of the first two. Each adds a bit of information to the diagnostic puzzle. In a newly published 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 involves coughing, fatigue, and congestion that led him to his primary care doctor. He got an influenza and pneumococcal vaccine. The coughing triggered 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. Soon after, he saw a rash on his left arm that his medical consultant identified as herpes zoster shingles. Since it was too late to take an antiviral he took ibuprofen for the pain related to shingles. 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 brought about 80% less 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 Sitka chiropractor is constantly looking for the unusual and prepared to respond with an exam-based diagnosis and an alleviating treatment plan for Sitka neck pain and back pain!
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Check out this PODCAST with Dr. Steven Baroody on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explained how his patient who presented 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 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 always starts with the proper diagnosis!
Set your next Sitka chiropractic visit today. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka will do the proper examination to suitable the proper diagnosis to deliver the best clinical outcome likely for usual and unusual causes of back pain and neck pain. Visit us soon!
