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 expect hands-on care. Recently, they faced with using remote consultations with some trepidation as there was a limitation with their not being able to do a physical examination that would lead to as conclusive and well-informed 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 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 yet chiropractic hands-on care is at the heart of chiropractic. Three distinctly hands-on professions - chiropractic, osteopathy, and physiotherapy – grapple with placebo and nocebo effects 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 for its beneficial contribution to relief. The nocebo effect was explained as a potential negative effect on outcomes because of things like a patients’ past experiences, concepts, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s communication with the patient. (3) Your Oxford chiropractor at Satterwhite Chiropractic works to boost any possible placebo effect and modulate 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 be for blood pressure, holiday 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 uses protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD) spinal manipulation to reduce intradiscal pressures. In a new paper, 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. Reducing 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 controlling spine pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
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