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December 2022 Healthy News from Spinal Care Clinic Chiropractic Hands-on Care to Decrease Disc Pressures Among Other Benefits

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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. 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 titled “Can You Be a Manual Therapist Without Using Your Hands?” described that telehealth has a place in assisting chronic musculoskeletal pain (back pain, neck pain, etc.) 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 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 effects in their care delivery. Once, 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 because of things like a patients’ past experiences, ideas, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s communication with the patient. (3) Your Burlington and Hamilton chiropractor works to enhance any possible placebo effect and downplay any possible nocebo effect to provide you with the best possible pain-relieving clinical outcome with our hands-on treatment that we both most likely view as the chiropractic forte!

picture of Burlington and Hamilton disc herniation  

TIP OF THE MONTH:  Reduce the (Disc) Pressure!

This recommendation can apply to blood pressure, holiday expectation 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 reduce 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 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. Reducing 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 details the importance of disc nutrition in controlling spine pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

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