Healthy News December 2022 Chiropractic Hands-on Treatment to Reduce Disc Pressures and More
What type of care do you think of when asked about chiropractic? Hands-on, right? Chiropractors see themselves as hands-on practitioners. They also suspect that their patients expect hands-on care. In recent years, they were challenged to use remote consultations as a concern was that these don’t allow for physical examination that would lead to as conclusive 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 assisting chronic musculoskeletal pain patients with improvement to pain and function via guidance on exercise, etc.. 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 core 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 often ascribed for positive treatment outcomes with these hands-on methods. Today, it is increasingly recognized as beneficial for relief. The nocebo effect was described as a potential negative effect on outcomes due to things like a patients’ past experiences, ideas, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s communication with the patient. (3) Your Vancouver chiropractor at Vancouver Disc Centers strives to boost any possible placebo effect and modulate 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 advice can apply to blood pressure, holiday expectation pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors desire to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are elevated causing 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 paper, researchers recorded significantly lowered 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. Reducing spinal disc pressures may even help you cope better with other life pressures 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.
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