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 suspect that
their patients look for hands-on treatment. In
recent years, they faced with using remote consultations with some concern
as there was a limitation with their not being able to perform a physical examination that would lead to as conclusive 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 (back pain, neck pain, etc.) 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 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 impacts
in their care delivery. Once, the placebo effect was often
ascribed for positive treatment
outcomes with these hands-on methods. Today, it is increasingly
recognized for its beneficial contribution to
relief. The nocebo effect was explained as a potential negative
effect on outcomes because of things like a patients’ past
experiences, ideas, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s
interaction with the patient. (3) Your Manchester chiropractor works
to boost any possible placebo effect and modulate
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 see 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 aspire
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 decrease intradiscal pressures. In a recently
published paper, researchers documented 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 of life’s
pressures, but we can at least reduce one! Bring your
painful spine to us. Reducing 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 importance
of disc nutrition in managing spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries
Happy Holidays!
We are grateful for your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Make your
next Manchester chiropractic visit with
Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries now!