Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Diagnoses Underlying Causes of Neck Pain and Arm Pain and Delivers Pain Relieving Care
“What is this, doc?” A question like this is always welcome at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation. Sometimes there is a clear answer, and sometimes there is not. It is a great discussion starter though. These inquiries typically come up during the exam but occasionally come up during a chiropractic office visit. They most times reveal something helpful toward pain relief that both your Carrolltown chiropractor wants for you and you want for yourself. Curious conditions may present themselves via curious symptoms like this case of cervical spine neck pain with a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation relies on the clinical exam above anything else. Your Carrolltown chiropractor listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in light of the first two. Each provides a bit of information to the diagnostic puzzle. In a recent chiropractic case report, a piece of the puzzle came from a strange rash on a patient’s arm during his treatment plan for neck and arm pain. His story involves coughing, fatigue, and congestion that guided 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 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 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 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 decrease the neck pain by 50%. Another 4 treatments in 3 months brought about 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 Carrolltown chiropractor is constantly looking for the unusual and prepared to respond with an exam-based diagnosis and a relieving treatment plan for Carrolltown 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 described how his patient who came 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!
Make your next Carrolltown chiropractic visit soon. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation will perform 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!
