“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’s a great discussion
starter though. These queries usually
come up in the course of
the examination but occasionally come up
during a chiropractic treatment visit. They always
disclose something useful toward pain relief
that both your Groton chiropractor wants for you and you want for
yourself. Interesting conditions may show
themselves via interesting symptoms like this case of cervical
spine neck pain with a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office depends on the clinical
exam above anything else. Your Groton chiropractor
listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in consideration
of the first two. Each provides a piece of data
to the diagnostic puzzle. In a newly published chiropractic case
report, a piece of the puzzle came from a peculiar
rash on a patient’s arm during his care for neck and arm pain.
His story entails coughing, fatigue, and congestion
that led him to his primary care doctor. He received 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 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. Soon after, he saw
a rash on his left arm that his medical consultant diagnosed
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 resolve
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 Groton
chiropractor is constantly on the lookout for
the unusual and prepared to respond with an exam-based diagnosis
and a relieving treatment plan for Groton neck
pain and back pain!
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
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 revealed a cervical disc herniation as
a cause for his 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 must start with the correct diagnosis!
Make your next Groton
chiropractic visit today. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office will perform
the appropriate examination to suitable the
proper diagnosis to deliver the best clinical outcome possible for
usual and unusual causes of back pain and neck pain. Visit us
soon!
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