Chiropractic Assignment

1. Why did the patient present to the clinic in their first visit? Was the complaint a musculo skeletal problem, a visceral problem or other?

The day I went to the clinic was also the patients first visit where she had numerous complaints about pain in her body. These included pain in both her shoulders, her lower back (including the lower thoracic and her upper lumbars), as well as complaining about knee pain in her left knee. The complaints were a musculo skeletal problem as well as postural.

2. What type of pain or symptoms did the patient have?

The patients presented herself with sharp and dull pain, as well as shooting pain in all three areas mentioned above.

Symptoms the patient had included daily work where she felt as though she could no longer physically conduct due to the pain. Examples include: pain in her shoulder increased when turning to the side/ rotating, sleeping on her side, putting extra pressure on her back as well as sitting down on chairs or the ground, turning/ rotating and bending forward/ flexing.

The patient presented her pain intensity on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being no pain to 10 being very painful. She gave the following results:

3- knee

4- shoulder

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