“What is this, doc?” A question like this is always welcome at Hollstrom & Associates Inc. Sometimes there is a clear
answer, and sometimes there is not. It’s a great starting point though. These questions typically
come up at some point in
the exam but sometimes surface
during a chiropractic treatment visit. They most times
tell something helpful toward pain relief
that both your Largo chiropractor wants for you and you want for
yourself. Curious conditions may show
themselves via curious symptoms like this case of cervical
spine neck pain concurrent with a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Hollstrom & Associates Inc relies on the clinical
exam more than anything else. Your Largo chiropractor
listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in consideration
of the first two. Each provides a bit of information
to the diagnostic puzzle. In a newly published chiropractic case
report, a piece of the puzzle came from a strange
rash on a patient’s arm during his treatment plan for neck and arm pain.
His story encompasses 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 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 saw
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 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 over 12 weeks brought
about 80% decreased 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 Largo
chiropractor is always looking for
the unusual and prepared to respond with an exam-based diagnosis
and a relieving treatment plan for Largo neck
pain and back pain!
CONTACT Hollstrom & Associates Inc
Check out 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 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 must start with the proper diagnosis!
Set your next Largo
chiropractic visit soon. Hollstrom & Associates Inc 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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