BENEFITS OF CHIROPRACTIC HANDS-ON TREATMENT
What is your view of chiropractic care? 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 don’t 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?” 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 center
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 cometimes
ascribed for positive treatment
outcomes with these hands-on methods. Today, it is increasingly
seen for its beneficial contribution to
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
communication with the patient. (3) Your Groton chiropractor works
to enhance any possible placebo effect and modulate
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 see 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 aspire
to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are high resulting
in 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 recently
published report, researchers documented 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. Decreasing 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.
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
Happy Holidays!
We appreciate your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Make your
next Groton chiropractic visit with
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office soon!