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 expect 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 do a physical examination that would lead to as definitive 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 pain and function improvement via advice 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 effects in their care delivery. Once, the placebo effect was often ascribed for positive treatment outcomes with these hands-on approaches. Today, it is increasingly seen for its beneficial contribution to relief. The nocebo effect was explained as a potential negative effect on outcomes due to things like a patients’ past experiences, ideas, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s communication with the patient. (3) Your McHenry chiropractor at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic strives 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 see as the chiropractic forte!
TIP OF THE MONTH: Reduce the (Disc) Pressure!
This recommendation can apply to blood pressure, holiday expectation pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors desire 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 recently published report, researchers recorded 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 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. 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 importance of disc nutrition in controlling spine pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
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