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 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 definitive and educated a diagnosis and treatment plan as they would like. (1) Recent analyses like one named “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 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 center of chiropractic. Three distinctly hands-on professions - chiropractic, osteopathy, and physiotherapy – wrestle with placebo and nocebo impacts in their care delivery. Once, 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 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 Southern New Hampshire chiropractor at New Hampshire Spine and Sport works to enhance 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 see as the chiropractic forte!
TIP OF THE MONTH: Reduce the (Disc) Pressure!
This recommendation can be for blood pressure, holiday pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors want to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are elevated 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 decrease intradiscal pressures. In a new report, researchers documented significantly lowered intradiscal pressures at all studied lumbar disc levels purporting 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. Lowering 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 details the importance of disc nutrition in managing spine pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
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