“What is this, doc?” A question like this is always welcome at New Roads Chiropractic Center. Sometimes there is a clear
answer, and sometimes there is not. It’s a great discussion
starter though. These inquiries typically
surface at some point in
the exam but sometimes surface
during a chiropractic office visit. They most times
disclose something useful toward pain relief
that both your New Roads chiropractor wants for you and you want for
yourself. Interesting conditions may reveal
themselves via interesting symptoms like this case of cervical
spine neck pain and a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
New Roads Chiropractic Center counts on the clinical
exam above anything else. Your New Roads chiropractor
listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in consideration
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 peculiar
rash on a patient’s arm during his treatment plan for neck and arm pain.
His story encompasses coughing, fatigue, and congestion
that led him to his primary care doctor. He got an
influenza and pneumococcal vaccine. The coughing provoked
some neck pain that led 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 indicated a diagnosis of a C5-6 disc herniation, the most 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 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, decrease the arm rash, and lessen
the neck pain by 50%. Another 4 treatments in 3 months brought
about 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 New Roads
chiropractor is constantly on the lookout for
the unusual and ready to respond with an exam-based diagnosis
and an alleviating treatment plan for New Roads neck
pain and back pain!
CONTACT New Roads Chiropractic 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 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. 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!
Set your next New Roads
chiropractic visit soon. New Roads Chiropractic Center will do
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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