“What’s this, doc?” Such a
question is always welcome at Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center. Sometimes there is a clear
answer, and sometimes there is not. It is a great discussion
starter though. These queries typically
occur during
the examination but occasionally occur
during a chiropractic office visit. They always
tell something helpful toward pain relief
that both your Pensacola 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 and a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center relies on the clinical
exam more than anything else. Your Pensacola chiropractor
listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in light
of the first two. Each provides a piece of data
to the diagnostic puzzle. In a recent chiropractic case
report, a part of the puzzle came 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 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 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, a very common
cervical disc herniation level. Later on, he noted
a rash on his left arm that his medical doctor identified
as herpes zoster shingles. It
was too late for an antiviral, so he took ibuprofen for the pain related
to shingles. He experienced 5 cervical spine
treatments following the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management cervical spine protocols in 5 weeks to resolve
the arm pain, reduce the arm rash, and lessen
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 felt he was back to normal. (1) Talk about unusual! Your Pensacola
chiropractor is constantly looking for
the unusual and prepared to respond with an exam-based diagnosis
and a relieving treatment plan for Pensacola neck
pain and back pain!
CONTACT Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center
Listen to 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 must start with the proper diagnosis!
Set your next Pensacola
chiropractic visit today. Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center will do
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. See you
soon!