BENEFITS OF CHIROPRACTIC HANDS-ON TREATMENT
What is your view of chiropractic care? Chiropractors
see themselves as hands-on practitioners. They also suspect that
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 perform a physical examination that would lead to as definitive 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 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 yet chiropractic hands-on care is at the center
of chiropractic. Three distinctly hands-on professions - chiropractic,
osteopathy, and physiotherapy – grapple 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 as beneficial for
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
interaction with the patient. (3) Your Fort Wayne chiropractor strives
to enhance 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 see 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 want
to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are elevated resulting
in 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
decrased intradiscal pressures at all studied lumbar disc
levels proposing 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. Lowering 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 details the importance
of disc nutrition in controlling spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT Aaron Chiropractic Clinic
Happy Holidays!
We appreciate your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Make your
next Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment with
Aaron Chiropractic Clinic soon!