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 feel their patients expect hands-on treatment. Recently, they were challenged to use remote consultations as a concern was that these don’t allow for physical examination that would lead to as definitive and educated a diagnosis and treatment plan as they would like. (1) Recent analyses like one titled “Can You Be a Manual Therapist Without Using Your Hands?” described that telehealth has a place in assisting chronic musculoskeletal pain patients with pain and function improvement via guidance 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 – wrestle 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 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, concepts, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s interaction with the patient. (3) Your Fort Wayne chiropractor at Aaron Chiropractic Clinic works to boost 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 recommendation can apply to blood pressure, holiday pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors desire to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are high 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 lower intradiscal pressures. In a new report, researchers documented significantly lowered 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 permit better flow of nutrients into the disc. (4) We may not be able to reduce all the pressures of life, 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 value of disc nutrition in controlling spine pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
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