Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. Diagnoses Underlying Causes of Neck Pain and Arm Pain and Delivers Pain Relieving Care
“What is this, doc?” A question like this is always welcome at Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C.. Sometimes there is a clear answer, and sometimes there is not. It is a terrific discussion starter though. These questions usually turn up during the examination but sometimes surface during a chiropractic office visit. They most times tell something helpful toward pain relief that both your Auburn chiropractor wants for you and you want for yourself. Curious conditions may reveal themselves via interesting symptoms like this case of cervical spine neck pain and a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. depends on the clinical exam above anything else. Your Auburn chiropractor listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in consideration of the first two. Each lends 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 got 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 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 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, decrease the arm rash, and lessen the neck pain by 50%. Another 4 treatments over 12 weeks resulted in 80% reduced 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 Auburn chiropractor is constantly on the lookout for the unusual and ready to respond with an exam-based diagnosis and a relieving treatment plan for Auburn neck pain and back pain!
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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 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 always starts with the proper diagnosis!
Schedule your next Auburn chiropractic visit today. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. will perform 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. Visit us soon!
