Healthy News December 2022 Chiropractic Hands-on Treatment to Reduce Disc Pressures and More
What’s your view of chiropractic care? Chiropractors see themselves as hands-on practitioners. They also suspect that their patients expect hands-on care. In recent years, they faced with using remote consultations with some trepidation as there was a limitation with their not being able to perform a physical examination that would lead to as definitive and educated a diagnosis and treatment plan as they would like. (1) Recent analyses like one named “Can You Be a Manual Therapist Without Using Your Hands?” described that telehealth has a place in assisting chronic musculoskeletal pain patients with improvement to pain and function via advice on exercise and such. Some other positives were convenience, flexibility, undivided attention, self-management, exercise guidance, pain education, etc. (2) And yet chiropractic hands-on care is at the core of chiropractic. Three distinctly hands-on professions - chiropractic, osteopathy, and physiotherapy – wrestle with placebo and nocebo impacts in their care delivery. Once, the placebo effect was cometimes credited with positive treatment outcomes with these hands-on methods. Today, it is increasingly seen as beneficial for relief. The nocebo effect was described as a potential negative effect on outcomes due to things like a patients’ past experiences, concepts, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s interaction with the patient. (3) Your Williamson chiropractor at Apple Country Chiropractic works to boost any possible placebo effect and modulate any possible nocebo effect to provide you with the best possible pain-relieving clinical outcome with our hands-on treatment that we both most likely view as the chiropractic forte!
TIP OF THE MONTH: Reduce the (Disc) Pressure!
This recommendation can apply to blood pressure, holiday season expectation pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors want to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are elevated contributing to low back pain, neck pain, radicular arm pain and sciatic leg pain. The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management utilizes protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD) spinal manipulation to reduce intradiscal pressures. In a new report, researchers recorded significantly reduced intradiscal pressures at all studied lumbar disc levels proposing that CTFDD may be able to draw back a protruded nucleus pulposus to the disc’s center and allow better flow of nutrients into the disc. (4) We may not be able to reduce all the pressures of life, but we can at least reduce one! Bring your painful spine to us. Reducing spinal disc pressures may even help you cope better with other life pressures a bit more easily, too.
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox, developer of CTFDD, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the value of disc nutrition in controlling spine pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
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