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 look for hands-on care. In recent years, they faced with using remote consultations with some trepidation as there was a limitation with their not being able to perform a physical examination that would lead to as definitive and educated a diagnosis and treatment plan as they normally do. (1) Recent analyses like one named “Can You Be a Manual Therapist Without Using Your Hands?” described that telehealth has a place in helping chronic musculoskeletal pain patients with improvement to pain and function via guidance 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 – grapple with placebo and nocebo impacts 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 as beneficial for relief. The nocebo effect was described 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 at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office strives to enhance 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 recommendation can be for blood pressure, holiday season expectation pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors aspire to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are raised causing 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 lower intradiscal pressures. In a new report, researchers documented significantly decrased 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 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 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 controlling spine pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
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Happy Holidays!
We are grateful for your placing your spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Set your next Groton chiropractic visit with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office soon!