Shoulder Radiculopathy
A 65 year-old woman presented with pain in her left scapula and radiculopathy down her arm, with numbness in two fingers. The condition developed five months ago, and a few weeks ago she had ostopathy, without success. Since then the pain has become steadily worse, especially the past five days after a long plane journey. She has a high-energy, fast-talking disposition, appears quite healthy with a good diet, and has been very active with various sports until this pain began, disturbing her sleep and stopping most of her activities. She has since put on quite a lot of weight, and is desperate to get back into an active life. I treated her with 3 Pathways and immediately everything looked promising: a large range in readings suggested good dynamics. When treating her mid to upper thoracic, she felt strong pain moving backwards and forwards between her anterior forearm and posterior upper arm. AFter I treated her left fingers and elbow, the pain in her scapula became a dull ache but came back strong by the end of the treatment. At the second treatment, three days later, she said she slept very well the night after treatment and had very little pain the following day. The following night some pain returned and she had to take some painkillers, but it was gone from most of the arm and concentrated in the scapula and the two fingers. After three Pathways, I treated her with four different modes on various zones around the left scapula and on the fingers. After treatment, the scapula pain was much reduced and the fingers felt more normal. Two days later, she told me: "I woke up the morning after the treatment feeling quite amazed: all the pain was gone." I gave her a third treatment to consolidate the progress in her scapula and arm, and a fourth treatment for a long-standing problem in her knee (two years ago she was told she would knee replacement surgery but she has been trying to avoid it). I spoke to her seven days later and all the pain was still gone in the scapula and arm. The finger tips were still tingling, but the knee was 80% Ok and she was able to do a three-hour walk yesterday. There is still a niggling pain there that comes when walking downhill, so we'll resume treatment for that soon.
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