Research: Oxford Spinal Manipulation Relief of Back and Leg Pain, Neurological Symptoms
Researchers keep studying spinal manipulation to more fully describe its contributions to pain relief for sufferers with back pain, related leg pain, and neurological symptoms that disrupt quality of life. Spinal manipulation (SM) alleviates back pain (acute, chronic), back-related leg pain, quality of life, neurological symptoms, and disability for sufferers. That’s a sentence full of promise which has research support behind its claims. Satterwhite Chiropractic individualizes a chiropractic treatment plan combining spinal manipulation oftentimes the gentle form of Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression for our Oxford chiropractic patients after doing a detailed examination. Oxford pain relief is possible.
NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS
Spinal pain patients as well as patients experiencing neurological disorders like stroke have neurological symptoms that respond to spinal manipulation. Suffering with neurological symptoms impacts worldwide disability statistics as well as personal well-being and quality of life. A narrative review noted that most studies reported how spinal manipulation eased spinal pain, may increase strength in asymptomatic people, and reportedly affected spasticity, muscle stiffness, motor function, autonomic function, and balance problems. Of course, a call for more studies to solidify these findings was issued. But the beneficial impact of spinal manipulation on the quality of life for spine pain sufferers, those with balance issues, and those with cerebral palsy were listed. (1) Such relief reasonably influences back pain treatment guidelines that your Oxford chiropractor consults to optimize your clinical back pain relief.
CLINICAL GUIDELINES FOR BACK PAIN
Researchers scour the published research papers to obtain the ones with reliability, coherence, etc. A newer guideline for the treatment of low back pain concluded that incorporating spinal manipulation in the treatment plan of acute low back pain, chronic low back pain and chronic back-related leg pain was valuable as part of a multimodal approach. Advice, reassurance, education, self-management, usual medical care, home exercises, etc., were listed as beneficial in improving pain and disability. (2) Guidelines like this for back pain must be based on research that explains how relief is created.
SPINAL MANIPULATION RELIEF FOR BACK PAIN
A current study proposes that how chronic low back pain patients respond to SM stems from centralization which can be tested using questionnaires, pressure pain threshold tests, inflammatory cytokine tests, and patient expectations of relief. The researchers expect to be able to forecast patient response. (3) Prior to this study, a narrative review found that spinal manipulation in part deterred neck pain and back pain via spinal cord mechanisms of pain relief and queried the role of peripheral mechanisms regulating inflammatory responses. (4) Both studies included placebo comparison but also documented that placebo and controls in a spinal manipulation study are tough to conceal treatment versus no-treatment because of the hands-on character of the treatment. An improved control/placebo could help clarify the contribution of the effects of SM on pain relief.
THE CHALLENGE OF PLACEBO
Back pain patients do not often question their pain relief. They don’t often ask “Was it this?” or “Was it that?” that finally sealed the deal on getting them out of pain, but researchers know that the placebo effect may well be influential based on patient expectations and conditioning. Researchers are now testing whether conditioning can enhance patient outcomes by sharing the positive expectations of spinal manipulation treatment. (5) What do you think? Satterwhite Chiropractic knows our chiropractic patients can feel better understanding that their care is well-researched and supported by clinical trials that documented positive clinical outcomes for back pain relief.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Clint Dickason on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a patient with back-related-leg pain.
Schedule your Oxford chiropractic appointment now. Don’t let your quality of life deteriorate because of your back pain, related leg pain and or neurological sypmatomatology. Trust Satterwhite Chiropractic to thoroughly examine your spine and establish a relieving treatment plan for its care.
