“What is this, doc?” Such a
question is always welcome at Satterwhite Chiropractic. Sometimes there is a clear
answer, and sometimes there is not. It’s a great starting point though. These questions usually
turn up at some point in
the exam but occasionally occur
during a chiropractic office visit. They most times
tell something useful toward pain relief
that both your Oxford chiropractor wants for you and you want for
yourself. Curious conditions may show
themselves via interesting symptoms like this case of cervical
spine neck pain with a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Satterwhite Chiropractic counts on the clinical
exam more than anything else. Your Oxford chiropractor
listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in consideration
of the first two. Each lends a bit of information
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 treatment plan 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 prompted
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 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, the most common
cervical disc herniation level. Soon after, he noted
a rash on his left arm that his medical consultant 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 ease and get rid of
the arm pain, reduce the arm rash, and reduce
the neck pain by 50%. Another 4 treatments over 12 weeks resulted in 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 Oxford
chiropractor is constantly on the lookout for
the unusual and prepared to respond with an exam-based diagnosis
and a relieving treatment plan for Oxford neck
pain and back pain!
CONTACT Satterwhite Chiropractic
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 doctored for shoulder pain with
no relief. Dr. Baroody’s exam revealed 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 proper diagnosis!
Set your next Oxford
chiropractic visit today. Satterwhite Chiropractic will do
the appropriate examination to come up with the
proper diagnosis to deliver the best clinical outcome possible for
usual and unusual causes of back pain and neck pain. See you
soon!