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 were challenged
to use remote consultations as a concern was that these do not allow
for physical examination that would lead to as conclusive and
well-informed diagnosis and treatment plan as they would like. (1) Recent analyses like one named “Can You Be a
Manual Therapist Without Using Your Hands?” wrote that
telehealth has a place in helping chronic musculoskeletal pain (back pain, neck pain, etc.) patients
with improvement to pain and function via advice
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 heart
of chiropractic. Three distinctly hands-on professions - chiropractic,
osteopathy, and physiotherapy – grapple with placebo and nocebo effects
in their care delivery. In the past, the placebo effect was often
mentioned as a way of negating positive treatment
outcomes with these hands-on approaches. Today, it is increasingly
recognized for its beneficial contribution to
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 Carrolltown 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 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 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 paper, 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 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 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 describes the value
of disc nutrition in managing spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Happy Holidays!
We appreciate your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Set your
next Carrolltown chiropractic visit with
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation now!