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Research: Vancouver Spinal Manipulation Relief of Back and Leg Pain, Neurological Symptoms

Researchers keep studying spinal manipulation to more fully describe its contributions to pain relief for sufferers with back pain, related leg pain, and neurological symptoms that disrupt quality of life. Spinal manipulation (SM) eases back pain (acute, chronic), back-related leg pain, quality of life, neurological symptoms, and disability for sufferers. That is a sentence full of promise with supporting research behind its claims. Vancouver Disc Centers individualizes a chiropractic treatment plan combining spinal manipulation oftentimes the gentle type of Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression for our Vancouver chiropractic patients after performing a thorough examination. Vancouver pain relief is possible.

NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS

Spinal pain patients as well as patients with neurological disorders like stroke have neurological symptoms that respond to spinal manipulation. Experiencing neurological symptoms contributes to worldwide disability statistics as well as personal well-being and quality of life. A narrative review noted that most studies reported the mechanism by which spinal manipulation decreased spinal pain, may improve strength in asymptomatic people, and reportedly impacted spasticity, muscle stiffness, motor function, autonomic function, and balance challenges. Of course, a call for more studies to solidify these findings was issued. But the beneficial impact of spinal manipulation on the quality of life for spine pain sufferers, those with balance issues, and those with cerebral palsy were listed. (1) Such relief logically influences back pain treatment guidelines with which your Vancouver chiropractor confers to boost your clinical back pain relief.

CLINICAL GUIDELINES FOR BACK PAIN

Researchers hunt through the published research papers to obtain the ones with reliability, coherence, etc. A newer guideline for the treatment of low back pain concluded that incorporating spinal manipulation in the care of acute low back pain, chronic low back pain and chronic back-related leg pain was effective as part of a multimodal approach. Advice, reassurance, education, self-management, usual medical care, home exercises, etc., were reported as helpful to improve pain and disability. (2) Guidelines like this for back pain must be based on research that describes how relief is produced.

SPINAL MANIPULATION RELIEF FOR BACK PAIN

A present study proposes that how chronic low back pain patients respond to SM comes from centralization which can be tested using questionnaires, pressure pain threshold tests, inflammatory cytokine tests, and patient expectations of relief. The researchers anticipate being able to predict patient response. (3) Before this study, a narrative review noted that spinal manipulation in part deterred neck pain and back pain via spinal cord mechanisms of pain relief and queried the role of peripheral mechanisms regulating inflammatory responses. (4) Both studies incorporated placebo comparison but also noted that placebo and controls in a spinal manipulation study are tough to mask treatment versus no-treatment because of the hands-on nature of the treatment. An improved control/placebo could help clarify the contribution of the effects of SM on pain relief.

THE CHALLENGE OF PLACEBO

Back pain patients do not often question their pain relief. They don’t often ask “Was it this?” or “Was it that?” that finally got them feeling better, but researchers know that the placebo effect may well be influential based on patient expectations and conditioning. Researchers are now checking to see whether conditioning can enhance patient outcomes by sharing the positive expectations of spinal manipulation treatment. (5) What do you think? Vancouver Disc Centers knows our chiropractic patients can feel better knowing that their care is well-researched and supported by clinical trials that documented positive clinical outcomes for back pain relief.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Clint Dickason on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a patient with back-related-leg pain.

Schedule your Vancouver chiropractic appointment today. Vancouver Disc Centers hopes that you don’t let your quality of life suffer because of your back pain, related leg pain and or neurological sypmatomatology. Trust Vancouver Disc Centers to fully examine your spine and establish a relieving treatment plan for its care. 

 
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