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!
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.
CONTACT Spinal Care Clinic
Happy Holidays!
We are grateful for your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Schedule your
next Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic appointment with
Spinal Care Clinic soon!