Hollstrom & Associates Inc Diagnoses Underlying Causes of Neck Pain and Arm Pain and Delivers Pain Relieving Care
“What’s this, doc?” Such a question is always welcome at Hollstrom & Associates Inc. Sometimes there is a clear answer, and sometimes there is not. It’s a terrific starting point though. These questions usually turn up at some point in the exam but sometimes come up during a chiropractic treatment visit. They most times reveal something useful toward pain relief that both your Largo chiropractor wants for you and you want for yourself. Interesting conditions may show themselves via interesting symptoms like this case of cervical spine neck pain and a case of shingles.
CHIROPRACTIC EXAM AND TREATMENT
Hollstrom & Associates Inc counts 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 piece of data 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 triggered some neck pain that led 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) specifically into his left lateral arm, forearm, thumb and index finger. Clinical symptoms lead to a diagnosis of a C5-6 disc herniation, the most common cervical disc herniation level. Later on, he noticed 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, reduce the arm rash, and decrease the neck pain by 50%. Another 4 treatments over 12 weeks 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 Largo chiropractor is constantly 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!
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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 as a cause for his 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!
Set your next Largo chiropractic visit soon. Hollstrom & Associates Inc will do the proper 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. See you soon!
