Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn Diagnoses Underlying Causes of Neck Pain and Arm Pain and Delivers Pain Relieving Care
“What’s this, doc?” A question like this is always welcome at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn. Sometimes there is a clear answer, and sometimes there is not. It’s a terrific discussion starter though. These queries usually come up during the exam but sometimes occur during a chiropractic office visit. They always reveal something helpful toward pain relief that both your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor wants for you and you want for yourself. Interesting conditions may present themselves via interesting symptoms like this case of cervical spine neck pain concurrent with a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn relies on the clinical exam above anything else. Your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor listens first, tests second, and considers imaging in consideration of the first two. Each adds a piece of info to the diagnostic puzzle. In a recent chiropractic case report, a piece 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 guided him to his primary care doctor. He got an influenza and pneumococcal vaccine. The coughing prompted some neck pain that took this 43 year old male 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 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 consultant identified 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 reduce the neck pain by 50%. Another 4 treatments in 3 months resulted in 80% less 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 Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor is constantly looking for the unusual and prepared to respond with an exam-based diagnosis and a relieving treatment plan for Ashburn and Herndon neck pain and back pain!
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Check out this PODCAST with Dr. Steven Baroody on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explained how his patient who presented to the office with severe, long-standing shoulder pain was doctored 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 always starts with the proper diagnosis!
Make your next Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic visit soon. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn will do 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!
