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 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 definitive and educated a diagnosis and treatment plan as they would like. (1) Recent analyses like one titled “Can You Be a Manual Therapist Without Using Your Hands?” wrote that telehealth has a place in assisting chronic musculoskeletal pain patients with pain and function improvement via advice on exercise and such. Some other positives were convenience, flexibility, undivided attention, self-management, exercise guidance, pain education, etc. (2) And yet 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 often mentioned as a way of negating positive treatment outcomes with these hands-on approaches. Today, it is increasingly seen as beneficial for relief. The nocebo effect was explained as a potential negative effect on outcomes due to things like a patients’ past experiences, concepts, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s interaction with the patient. (3) Your St Peters chiropractor at Old Mill Chiropractic strives to enhance any possible placebo effect and downplay 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 view as the chiropractic forte!
TIP OF THE MONTH: Reduce the (Disc) Pressure!
This recommendation can be for blood pressure, holiday expectation pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors want to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are high causing low back pain, neck pain, radicular arm pain and sciatic leg pain. The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management utilizes protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD) spinal manipulation to reduce intradiscal pressures. In a recently published report, researchers documented significantly reduced intradiscal pressures at all studied lumbar disc levels proposing that CTFDD may be able to draw back 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. Lowering spinal disc pressures may even help you cope better with other life pressures 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 importance of disc nutrition in controlling spine pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
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