February 2025 Healthy News from New Roads Chiropractic Center Chiropractic Identity, Exercise, Attire

A new study by Leduc in January 2025 concluded that what we chiropractors wear impacts our patients’ perception of us, including your New Roads chiropractor at New Roads Chiropractic Center. That’s good for us to know! Scrubs make us look more knowledgeable, trustworthy, competent, professional and comfortable. White coats and formal wear came second overall. For women chiropractors, the white coat was more affirmative for them than when men wear them. (1) Interestingly, this attire issue doesn’t just concern chiropractors. A study done in Saudi Arabia on patient perceptions of surgeons based on their attire found that patients preferred scrubs and white coats. These preferences were accredited to perceived hygiene as well as the image of dedication and expertise transmitted by such attire. (2) Beyond their attire, chiropractors are working to hone their professional identity to better interact other healthcare colleagues who – according to other articles like the surgeon attire one – also work to polish their image and identity for their patients and collegial interactions. (3) One paper boldly resolved that “although the chiropractic profession may debate internally about its professional identity, the chiropractic identity seems to have already been established by society, practice, legislation, and education as a profession of health care providers whose area of expertise is spine care.” (4) Starting with spine care works for New Roads Chiropractic Center! Spine pain relief builds trust, leading patients to consult us for other health issues. Bring on your New Roads back pain and neck pain! We’ll wear our best scrubs, clothes and/or white coats! Together,  let us, you and New Roads Chiropractic Center, get you feeling better!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Benjamin Fonke on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about the addition of exercise and The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to reduce chronic low back pain.

TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise for just 10 minutes!

Have back pain? Don’t like to exercise? New Roads Chiropractic Center gets it! What if we told you just 10 minutes can help? When you’re hurting, 10 minutes maybe enticing! A recent study reported that a short 10 minutes, easy-to-perform core stabilization exercise produced significant low back pain relief for chronic low back pain patients. (5) What do you think about that? Effective. Immediate. Non-drug. Ready to try? Let’s chat at your next New Roads chiropractic appointment.

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Happy February!