“What’s this, doc?” A question like this is always welcome at Palmer Chiropractic Center. Sometimes there is a clear
answer, and sometimes there is not. It is a great discussion
starter though. These questions usually
turn up at some point in
the examination but occasionally come up
during a chiropractic office visit. They most times
disclose something useful toward pain relief
that both your Lynchburg 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 and a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Palmer Chiropractic Center counts on the clinical
exam more than anything else. Your Lynchburg chiropractor
listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in light
of the first two. Each provides a bit of data
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 entails coughing, fatigue, and congestion
that led him to his primary care doctor. He got an
influenza and pneumococcal vaccine. The coughing triggered
some neck pain that led this 43 year old male to his
chiropractor for the neck pain that was explained as constant,
sharp neck pain on the left with an aching, tingling sensation down his left arm (radiculopathy) specifically 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. Soon after, he saw
a rash on his left arm that his medical consultant identified
as herpes zoster shingles. It
was too late for an antiviral, so 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 ease and get rid of
the arm pain, reduce 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 Lynchburg
chiropractor is constantly on the lookout for
the unusual and ready to respond with an exam-based diagnosis
and a relieving treatment plan for Lynchburg neck
pain and back pain!
CONTACT Palmer Chiropractic Center
Check out 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 doctored 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!
Schedule your next Lynchburg
chiropractic visit today. Palmer Chiropractic Center will perform
the appropriate 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!
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