“What’s this, doc?” A question like this is always welcome at Novelli Wellness Center. Sometimes there is a clear
answer, and sometimes there is not. It’s a great starting point though. These questions usually
occur in the course of
the examination but sometimes come up
during a chiropractic office visit. They always
reveal something useful toward pain relief
that both your Orchard Park, NY chiropractor wants for you and you want for
yourself. Curious conditions may reveal
themselves via curious symptoms like this case of cervical
spine neck pain concurrent with a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Novelli Wellness Center depends on the clinical
exam more than anything else. Your Orchard Park, NY chiropractor
listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in light
of the first two. Each provides a piece of information
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 care for neck and arm pain.
His story encompasses coughing, fatigue, and congestion
that led him to his primary care doctor. He received 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 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, the most common
cervical disc herniation level. Soon after, he noted
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 shingles pain. He experienced 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 reduce
the neck pain by 50%. Another 4 treatments in 3 months 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 Orchard Park, NY
chiropractor is always on the lookout for
the unusual and prepared to respond with an exam-based diagnosis
and a relieving treatment plan for Orchard Park, NY neck
pain and back pain!
CONTACT Novelli Wellness 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 treated for shoulder pain with
no relief. Dr. Baroody’s exam found a cervical disc herniation causing pain. No wonder
the other treatments gave him 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!
Schedule your next Orchard Park, NY
chiropractic visit soon. Novelli Wellness Center will perform
the proper 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. See you
soon!
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