Healthy News December 2022 Chiropractic Hands-on Treatment to Reduce Disc Pressures and More
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 look for hands-on care. In recent years, they were challenged to use remote consultations as a concern was that these don’t 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 assisting chronic musculoskeletal pain patients with pain and function improvement via guidance 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 – grapple with placebo and nocebo effects in their care delivery. Once, the placebo effect was often credited with positive treatment outcomes with these hands-on approaches. Today, it is increasingly seen as beneficial for relief. The nocebo effect was explained 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 Sitka chiropractor at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka strives to boost any possible placebo effect and downplay any possible nocebo effect to support 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 season expectation pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors want to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are raised resulting in low back pain, neck pain, radicular arm pain and sciatic leg pain. The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management incorporates protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD) spinal manipulation to lower intradiscal pressures. In a recently published report, researchers documented significantly reduced intradiscal pressures at all studied lumbar disc levels purporting that CTFDD may be able to pull a protruded nucleus pulposus to the disc’s center and permit better flow of nutrients into the disc. (4) We may not be able to reduce all of life’s pressures, but we can at least reduce one! Bring your painful spine to us. Decreasing 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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