NECK PAIN ANATOMY CaseFile
(Keywords: NECK PAIN ANATOMY CaseFile, arm pain, chiropractic, ATLANTO AXIAL JOINT ANATOMY ) NECK PAIN ANATOMY CaseFile. Sometimes X-rays can be very misleading - is the patient's pain actually coming from the very visible arthritis? Perhaps not... Mrs P, a 74-year old Dutch lady consulted me four months ago with a very long history of neck and right shoulder pain. There was frequent tingling in her arm, and severe headaches. She loves to sew. The only relief she could get would be to hold her neck tight with her left hand. Exercises given by a PT helped her shoulder but not her neck. It all started thirty years ago when she fell at work from the top step, and cracked her head very hard against the plinth at the bottom.
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X-rays
Sometimes things fall happily. Murphy isn't always at his best! He must have slept in with a good Irish hangover that day - if I'd seen Mrs P's X-rays in the beginning, I would certainly not have adjusted her neck. The neck of a woman of 90! A terrible curve, and horrible arthritis. But, and it's a big but - her main complaint: suboccipital pain was coming from an area where there no arthritis - but a very severe atlanto axial anatomy subluxation. It had affected the Greater Occipital nerve for thirty years giving her blinding headaches.
ATLANTO AXIAL JOINT ANATOMY ...
The AcromioClavicular Joint
NECK PAIN ANATOMY CaseFileHer shoulder complaint was coming primarily from the AC joint. When she fell down the stairs she recalls having desperately grabbed at the rail to stop herself from falling, alas without success. And gave her AcromioClavicular joint a good thump or "Klap" as we say here in Nederland.
ACROMIOCLAVICULAR JOINT ...
FOOT PAIN
She was also suffering from one of my favourite conditions: metatarsalgia, and we were fortunate to catch it before it caused a Mortons neuroma (Mortonse neuralgie). In this condition this nerve between the bones in the forefoot (metatarsals) is irritated.
FOOT PAIN ...
MORTONS NEUROMA ...
ANKLE JOINT PAIN ...
CHIROPRACTIC
At the heart of Chiropractic are two important facts: - Joints that remain fixated become arthritic. The hyaline cartilage in the joints is utterly dependent on movement within the joint for its nutrition. The alternative? Immobilisatin arthritis.
- If nothing is done, waste products of from the cartilage are not cleared away and begin to irritate the nerve. Tingling in the beginning, and eventually worse, depending on the nerve. Headache, weakness in the limb, numbness ... in the foot a Mortons neuroma.
PROGRESS in our NECK PAIN ANATOMY CaseFile
It was wonderful to hear from Mrs P this morning: Mijn nek is fantastisch - my nek is fantastic. Her foot and shoulder are also much improved. After 8 treatments she said her neck and headaches were 80% better (over a period of a month). Now she comes for a treatment once a month. I won't ever cure Mrs P's neck. It really is a horrible neck and frankly neither she nor I can believe how pain from thirty years can be so quickly relieved. Miracles we do at once, the impossible takes a little longer ... Does every neck respond like this? Sadly not. There are many reasons, some of them completely uncertain ... stress? Computers, cars ...>? UPDATE: It's now 6 months and she's doing great. I've allowed SOME sewing again. Not the easiest for the neck, and she she's doing the stiff neck exercises for neck pain faithfully.
STIFF NECK EXERCISES FOR NECK PAIN ...
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