“What’s this, doc?” Such a
question is always welcome at Soft Health and Healing Clinic. Sometimes there is a clear
answer, and sometimes there is not. It’s a great discussion
starter though. These questions typically
turn up at some point in
the exam but sometimes occur
during a chiropractic treatment visit. They most times
tell something helpful toward pain relief
that both your Brooks chiropractor wants for you and you want for
yourself. Curious conditions may reveal
themselves via interesting symptoms like this case of cervical
spine neck pain concurrent with a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Soft Health and Healing Clinic counts on the clinical
exam more than anything else. Your Brooks chiropractor
listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in consideration
of the first two. Each lends 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 involves coughing, fatigue, and congestion
that guided him to his primary care doctor. He received an
influenza and pneumococcal vaccine. The coughing provoked
some neck pain that led this 43 year old male 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) specifically into
his left lateral arm, forearm, thumb and index finger. Clinical symptoms indicated a diagnosis of a C5-6 disc herniation, a very common
cervical disc herniation level. Later on, 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 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 reduce
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 expressed
that he was back to normal. (1) Talk about unusual! Your Brooks
chiropractor is constantly looking for
the unusual and prepared to respond with an exam-based diagnosis
and an alleviating treatment plan for Brooks neck
pain and back pain!
CONTACT Soft Health and Healing 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 presented to the office with severe,
long-standing shoulder pain was treated 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 correct diagnosis!
Schedule your next Brooks
chiropractic visit soon. Soft Health and Healing 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!