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nice to know what percent of pain is possibly coming from the c spine vs the rest.
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Hi Jo, that's exactly what I asked her. That's when she pulled out the c-spine book and showed me the diagram. 5th digits, arms neck shoulders shoulderblades are affected by C4-C6. The book did not show a frontal map: no chest walls, no sternum. And when I asked about C7, she refered back to C6.
as tho C7 was irrelevent. She touched my shoulders and said "yep, like steel bands" and hit the spots under my shoulder blades and when I said OUCH she said "Yep. cervical." as if 100% of my problem was cervical.
She didn't give me time or opportunity to discuss arm pits, pecs, rib cage... nor did she say that killing the neck pain would return my arm strength.
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numb the neck bones to see if it relieves my arm pain
has something like that been tried /tested recently or post surgery? Just to check...
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No, I've been in limbo for 3 years now waiting for someone who could DO this kind of diagnostic testing under my Medicare here in ATL. and also has the experience. I'm not letting just anyone stick a needle in my neck to numb stuff.
here are her Specialties:
Anesthesiology (Board certified since 1993)
Pain Medicine (Board certified since 1994)
Area of Clinical Research:
Botox (botulinum toxin)
Intradiskal Electrothermal Therapy (IDET)
Radiofrequency Ablation
back pain
disc degeneration
dorsal column stimulator
epidural lysis of adhesions
epidural steroid injection
facet block
herniated disc
lumbar disorders
neck pain
nerve root block
neuropathic pain
pars block
rhizotomy
sacroiliac (SI) joint dysfunction
sacroiliac degeneration
sciatica
spinal cord stimulator
spinal implants
spinal pain
spinal stenosis
spondylolisthesis
spondylosis
trigeminal neuralgia
trigger point injection
Notice how the word
Thoracic isn't anywhere in her specialties? I'm thinking this is why she "steered" me to a strictly cervical diagnosis. I really felt as tho she ignored or disregarded about half of what I said. Fine and dandy if she specializes and can only treat the cervical, but couldn't she just say "it's definately not related to the surgeries" or "it could be both but I don't do Thoracic" or "I'm not familiar with..."
It was like she had selective deafness.
Or maybe she's correct and my surgeries were 100% successful and it's just coincidence that my neck is suddenly shot? and giving the same symptoms??
I don't mean to sound ungrateful or like a big baby, but I really was expecting a facility that had broader services and experience.