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 look for hands-on treatment. In
recent years, 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 conclusive and
educated a 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 assisting chronic musculoskeletal pain (back pain, neck pain, etc.) patients
with improvement to pain and function via advice
on exercise, etc.. 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 impacts
in their care delivery. In the past, the placebo effect was cometimes
mentioned as a way of negating positive treatment
outcomes with these hands-on approaches. Today, it is increasingly
seen as beneficial for
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
interaction with the patient. (3) Your Tonawanda chiropractor strives
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 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 uses
protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD) spinal
manipulation to lower intradiscal pressures. In a new paper, researchers recorded significantly
decrased intradiscal pressures at all studied lumbar disc
levels proposing that CTFDD may be able to draw back
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 of life’s
pressures, 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 details the importance
of disc nutrition in controlling spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
Happy Holidays!
We are grateful for your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Make your
next Tonawanda chiropractic visit with
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation soon!