“What is this, doc?” A question like this is always welcome at Aaron Chiropractic Clinic. Sometimes there is a clear
answer, and sometimes there is not. It is a terrific discussion
starter though. These questions typically
surface in the course of
the exam but occasionally come up
during a chiropractic office visit. They always
reveal something useful toward pain relief
that both your Fort Wayne 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
Aaron Chiropractic Clinic depends on the clinical
exam above anything else. Your Fort Wayne chiropractor
listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in light
of the first two. Each provides a bit of info
to the diagnostic puzzle. In a newly published 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 encompasses 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 led this 43 year old male 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 lead
to a diagnosis of a C5-6 disc herniation, a very common
cervical disc herniation level. Soon after, he noted
a rash on his left arm that his medical doctor diagnosed
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, decrease the arm rash, and reduce
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 Fort Wayne
chiropractor is always on the lookout for
the unusual and prepared to respond with an exam-based diagnosis
and a relieving treatment plan for Fort Wayne neck
pain and back pain!
CONTACT Aaron Chiropractic Clinic
Check out this PODCAST
with Dr. Steven Baroody on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explained
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 found 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 always
starts with the correct diagnosis!
Schedule your next Fort Wayne
chiropractic visit soon. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic 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. See you
soon!
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