Mario tells us about a recent patient he has treated with neck and nerve pain into the arm:
“I recently treated a dad of two who is his 30s, complaining of persistent neck and arm pain, which was traveling into his fingers. When we discussed his situation, he told me that the pain tended to flare up and down randomly with no obvious triggers that he could identify. It was affecting his sleep and his ability to do his boot camp classes. When the pain worsened in his neck and around his inner shoulder blade, he experienced extreme pain into his arm. He was prescribed co-codamol and although he found slight benefit from taking them, he didn’t really like taking it and wanted to avoid them if possible.
After initial examination, it appeared that the joints through his neck and upper back were generally restricted with the muscle tissues in protective spasm due to inflammation of a nerve root in his neck which was causing the arm pain
Upon treatment after our assessment, my aim was to get his neck and upper back moving within the joints and to reduce his muscle tension. This was achieved by using hands on techniques to restore joint range of motion and reduce his muscle spasm.
I decided to apply active release technique (ART) and medical acupuncture to the local muscle tissue and nerve mobilisations, due to the chronic nature of his symptoms.
On returning for his second treatment a few days later, he had experienced a big decrease in the pain in his arm with a 50% reduction of pain in his neck and inner shoulder blade the neck and shoulder blade. I continued to work into the muscle tissue and into the neck joints to maintain range of movement. We reinforced the increase in mobility by prescribing exercises that he did on a consistent basis between our sessions.
We will be looking at a self-management and preventative care plan going forward in the form of regular MOT Osteopathic treatment as well as exercise progression. With chronic pain, it is best to keep up a preventative ongoing approach which prevents the problem reoccurring.
He is now totally pain free and getting back to doing his day to day tasks.
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