Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office 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 Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. Sometimes there is a clear answer, and sometimes there is not. It is a great discussion starter though. These questions typically come up at some point in the exam but occasionally surface during a chiropractic office visit. They most times reveal something helpful toward pain relief that both your Groton 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 concurrent with a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office depends on the clinical exam more than anything else. Your Groton chiropractor listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in light of the first two. Each lends a bit of info to the diagnostic puzzle. In a recent chiropractic case report, a piece 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 received an influenza and pneumococcal vaccine. The coughing prompted some neck pain that took 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 extending into 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. Later on, he saw 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 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 resolve the arm pain, decrease 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 felt he was back to normal. (1) Talk about unusual! Your Groton chiropractor is always looking for the unusual and prepared to respond with an exam-based diagnosis and an alleviating treatment plan for Groton 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 always starts with the correct diagnosis!
Schedule your next Groton chiropractic visit today. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office will perform 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!
