BENEFITS OF CHIROPRACTIC HANDS-ON TREATMENT
What type of care do you think of when asked about chiropractic?
Hands-on, right? Chiropractors
see themselves as hands-on practitioners. They also feel
their patients expect hands-on care. Recently, 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 conclusive 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 assisting chronic musculoskeletal pain (back pain, neck pain, etc.) 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 still 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. In the past, the placebo effect was cometimes
ascribed for positive treatment
outcomes with these hands-on methods. Today, it is increasingly
seen for its beneficial contribution to
relief. The nocebo effect was described 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 New Roads chiropractor works
to boost 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 view as the chiropractic forte!
TIP OF THE MONTH: Reduce the (Disc) Pressure!
This recommendation can apply to
blood pressure, holiday expectation
pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors want
to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are raised contributing to 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 new paper, researchers documented 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 manage the other
pressures of life 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 importance
of disc nutrition in managing spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT New Roads Chiropractic Center
Happy Holidays!
We are grateful for your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Schedule your
next New Roads chiropractic visit with
New Roads Chiropractic Center now!