Index to Chiropractic Literature
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ID 18329
  Title Conservative treatment of a patient with syringomyelia using chiropractic biophysics protocols [case report]
URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16096046
Journal J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2005 Jul-Aug;28(6):Online access only 7 p
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Publication Type Case Report
Abstract/Notes OBJECTIVE: To present a case of a 41-year-old man with syringomyelia and intractable pain and the subsequent reduction of symptoms.

CLINICAL FEATURES: This patient acquired a traumatically induced syrinx in his upper cervical spinal cord after he fell approximately 9 feet and landed on his head, upper back, and neck 9 years before presenting for care. He was diagnosed with a spinal cord cyst (syrinx), located at approximately C2 through C4 after magnetic resonance imaging. In 1995, the patient underwent occipitoatlantal decompression surgery, which improved his symptoms for a short time.

INTERVENTION AND OUTCOMES: The patient was treated using Clinical Biomechanics of Posture protocol. The patient was seen 26 times over the course of 3 weeks. His scale for pain severity decreased 50% and other subjective complaints decreased. His posture improved based upon pretreatment and posttreatment lateral cervical radiographs, showing a change from a 10 degrees lordosis with midcervical kyphosis to a 30 degrees lordosis. One-year follow-up examination showed stable improvement in the cervical lordosis and pain intensity.

CONCLUSION: This case represents a change in subjective and objective measurements after conservative chiropractic care. This case provides an example that structural rehabilitation may have a positive effect on symptoms of a patient with syringomyelia.

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