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 look for hands-on treatment. In recent years, 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 educated a diagnosis and treatment plan as they normally do. (1) Recent analyses like one named “Can You Be a Manual Therapist Without Using Your Hands?” described that telehealth has a place in helping chronic musculoskeletal pain 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 – grapple with placebo and nocebo effects in their care delivery. In the past, the placebo effect was cometimes mentioned as a way of negating positive treatment outcomes with these hands-on approaches. Today, it is increasingly recognized as beneficial for relief. The nocebo effect was described as a potential negative effect on outcomes because of things like a patients’ past experiences, ideas, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s communication with the patient. (3) Your Manchester chiropractor at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries strives to enhance any possible placebo effect and downplay any possible nocebo effect to deliver 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 advice 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 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 report, researchers documented significantly lowered 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 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. Lowering 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 describes the value of disc nutrition in managing spine pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
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