BENEFITS OF CHIROPRACTIC HANDS-ON TREATMENT
What’s your view of chiropractic care? Chiropractors
see themselves as hands-on practitioners. They also suspect that
their patients look for hands-on care. Recently, they faced with using remote consultations with some trepidation
as there was a limitation with their not being able to perform a physical examination that would lead to as definitive and
well-informed diagnosis and treatment plan as they normally
do. (1) Recent analyses like one titled “Can You Be a
Manual Therapist Without Using Your Hands?” wrote that
telehealth has a place in helping chronic musculoskeletal pain (back pain, neck pain, etc.) patients
with improvement to pain and function via guidance
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 heart
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 cometimes
mentioned as a way of negating 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 due to things like a patients’ past
experiences, ideas, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s
communication with the patient. (3) Your Minster chiropractor works
to enhance 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 view as the chiropractic forte!
TIP OF THE MONTH: Reduce the (Disc) Pressure!
This advice can apply to
blood pressure, holiday season expectation
pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors aspire
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 incorporates
protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD) spinal
manipulation to reduce intradiscal pressures. In a recently
published report, 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 the pressures of life, but we can at least reduce one! Bring your
painful spine to us. Decreasing 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 describes the value
of disc nutrition in controlling spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT Minster Chiropractic Center
Happy Holidays!
We appreciate your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Set your
next Minster chiropractic visit with
Minster Chiropractic Center now!