“What is this, doc?” Such a
question is always welcome at Malverne Health & Wellness. Sometimes there is a clear
answer, and sometimes there is not. It’s a great discussion
starter though. These inquiries usually
occur in the course of
the examination but sometimes come up
during a chiropractic treatment visit. They always
reveal something helpful toward pain relief
that both your Malverne chiropractor wants for you and you want for
yourself. Interesting conditions may present
themselves via curious symptoms like this case of cervical
spine neck pain with a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Malverne Health & Wellness depends on the clinical
exam above anything else. Your Malverne chiropractor
listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in light
of the first two. Each provides a piece of info
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 entails coughing, fatigue, and congestion
that led him to his primary care doctor. He received an
influenza and pneumococcal vaccine. The coughing triggered
some neck pain that took 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) 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. Later on, he saw
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 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 decrease
the neck pain by 50%. Another 4 treatments in 3 months 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 Malverne
chiropractor is always on the lookout for
the unusual and prepared to respond with an exam-based diagnosis
and an alleviating treatment plan for Malverne neck
pain and back pain!
CONTACT Malverne Health & Wellness
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Steven Baroody on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explained
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 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 Malverne
chiropractic visit soon. Malverne Health & Wellness will perform
the appropriate examination to come up with the
proper diagnosis to deliver the best clinical outcome likely for
usual and unusual causes of back pain and neck pain. Visit us
soon!