BENEFITS OF CHIROPRACTIC HANDS-ON TREATMENT
What type of care do you think of when asked about chiropractic?
Hands-on, right? Chiropractors
see themselves as hands-on practitioners. They also feel
their patients expect hands-on treatment. Recently, they were challenged
to use remote consultations as a concern was that these do not allow
for physical examination that would lead to as conclusive and
well-informed diagnosis and treatment plan as they would like. (1) Recent analyses like one named “Can You Be a
Manual Therapist Without Using Your Hands?” wrote that
telehealth has a place in helping chronic musculoskeletal pain (back pain, neck pain, etc.) patients
with improvement to pain and function via advice
on exercise, etc.. Some other positives were convenience,
flexibility, undivided attention, self-management, exercise guidance, pain
education, etc. (2) And still chiropractic hands-on care is at the center
of chiropractic. Three distinctly hands-on professions - chiropractic,
osteopathy, and physiotherapy – wrestle with placebo and nocebo effects
in their care delivery. In the past, the placebo effect was cometimes
credited with positive treatment
outcomes with these hands-on methods. Today, it is increasingly
seen for its beneficial contribution to
relief. The nocebo effect was described as a potential negative
effect on outcomes because of things like a patients’ past
experiences, concepts, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s
interaction with the patient. (3) Your Sitka chiropractor strives
to boost any possible placebo effect and downplay
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 be for
blood pressure, holiday
pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors desire
to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are high 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 recently
published paper, researchers recorded significantly
lowered intradiscal pressures at all studied lumbar disc
levels purporting 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. Decreasing spinal disc pressures
may even help you manage the other
pressures of life a little 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 details the value
of disc nutrition in controlling spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
Happy Holidays!
We are grateful for your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Schedule your
next Sitka chiropractic appointment with
Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka soon!