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 suspect that
their patients expect hands-on treatment. 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 normally
do. (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 (back pain, neck pain, etc.) patients
with pain and function improvement 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 heart
of chiropractic. Three distinctly hands-on professions - chiropractic,
osteopathy, and physiotherapy – wrestle with placebo and nocebo impacts
in their care delivery. In the past, the placebo effect was cometimes
credited with positive treatment
outcomes with these hands-on methods. Today, it is increasingly
recognized for its beneficial contribution to
relief. The nocebo effect was described as a potential negative
effect on outcomes because of things like a patients’ past
experiences, concepts, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s
interaction with the patient. (3) Your Murfreesboro chiropractor strives
to enhance 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 recommendation can apply to
blood pressure, holiday
pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors aspire
to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are high contributing to low back pain, neck pain, radicular arm pain and
sciatic leg pain. The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management incorporates
protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD) spinal
manipulation to lower intradiscal pressures. In a recently
published report, researchers recorded significantly
reduced 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 permit 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. 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 describes the value
of disc nutrition in managing spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT Most Chiropractic Clinic
Happy Holidays!
We appreciate your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Schedule your
next Murfreesboro chiropractic appointment with
Most Chiropractic Clinic soon!