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As always, prior to beginning arm pain treatment, examination, evaluation and diagnosis must be made to understand why there is arm pain. Doctors About Care, PC West Babylon arm pain treatment chiropractic professionals will use their utmost diagnostic capabilities to pinpoint the exact cause of your arm pain, as they have for their West Babylon patients since 1999. Testing of arm pain consists of orthopedic and neurological tests, including nerve reflexes and muscle tests. Arm pain, resulting from heart disease, would have to be ruled out.
Arm pain, numbness or tingling can be the result of different injuries:
Overuse and overexertion from the gym, heavy participating in sports, musical instrument playing, even excessive computer use can create arm pain.
Arthritis causes your joints to become unstable and if they remain that way, they can fuse. Hands and wrists would be the first place arthritis would strike, before the arm.
Small injuries to the arm such as small fractures to hand bones, ligament tears, joint strains can also create arm pain. As these are more serious, they should be evaluated by a medical professional.
The neck can also be the root of many arm pains. Muscle strains to the neck, pinched nerve in the neck, cervical disc herniation, degenerated disc, any compression of your neck's discs, for example, can refer pain down the arms. Weak upper back and neck muscles can also bring arm pain, numbness and tingling as well.
Once the cause of the arm pain has been determined, the course of arm pain treatment can begin.
Included in West Babylon arm pain treatment chiropractic are:
• Physical therapy, ultrasound, electrical muscle stimulation, cold laser treatment. These will ease the inflammation which causes pain, as well as help with muscle spasms.
• Physical medicine techniques to aid with tight, stiff and sore muscles. These will aggravate your spine by misaligning its joints.
• Neck traction (gentle stretching of the neck), to gently separate the joints in the neck, which provides relief of the numbness down your arm you may be experiencing.
• Chiropractic treatment, including spinal manipulation. The course of this treatment is to improve the function of the spine, reduce any scar tissue, and to deal with nerve signaling which gets interrupted or misrouted.
When you suffer from arm pain, contact Doctors About Care, PC for an examination, evaluation, and diagnosis. Their West Babylon arm pain treatment chiropractic professionals will provide you with immediate arm pain relief.
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