“What’s this, doc?” Such a
question is always welcome at Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc. Sometimes there is a clear
answer, and sometimes there is not. It is a great starting point though. These queries usually
come up during
the exam but occasionally come up
during a chiropractic treatment visit. They most times
tell something helpful toward pain relief
that both your Fort Wayne 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
Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc relies on the clinical
exam above anything else. Your Fort Wayne chiropractor
listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in light
of the first two. Each adds a bit of information
to the diagnostic puzzle. In a recent chiropractic case
report, a part of the puzzle arose from a peculiar
rash on a patient’s arm during his care for neck and arm pain.
His story involves coughing, fatigue, and congestion
that guided him to his primary care doctor. He got an
influenza and pneumococcal vaccine. The coughing provoked
some neck pain that took this 43 year old man to his
chiropractor for the neck pain that was explained 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 lead
to a diagnosis of a C5-6 disc herniation, a very common
cervical disc herniation level. Soon after, he noticed
a rash on his left arm that his medical doctor diagnosed
as herpes zoster shingles. It
was too late for an antiviral, so 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, decrease the arm rash, and decrease
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 Fort Wayne
chiropractor is always looking for
the unusual and ready to respond with an exam-based diagnosis
and a relieving treatment plan for Fort Wayne neck
pain and back pain!
CONTACT Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc
Check out this PODCAST
with Dr. Steven Baroody on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explained
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 found 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 must start with the correct diagnosis!
Make your next Fort Wayne
chiropractic visit today. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc 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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