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 treatment. In recent years, 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 normally do. (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 patients with pain and function improvement via advice on exercise, etc.. 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 effects in their care delivery. Once, the placebo effect was cometimes credited with positive treatment outcomes with these hands-on methods. Today, it is increasingly seen 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 interaction with the patient. (3) Your Montreal chiropractor at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic strives to boost any possible placebo effect and downplay 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 see as the chiropractic forte!
TIP OF THE MONTH: Reduce the (Disc) Pressure!
This advice can apply to blood pressure, holiday pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors desire to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are elevated 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 decrease intradiscal pressures. In a new report, researchers documented significantly lowered intradiscal pressures at all studied lumbar disc levels purporting 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 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 details the value of disc nutrition in managing spine pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
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