February 2025 Healthy News from Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Chiropractic Identity, Exercise, Attire

A new study by Leduc in January 2025 closed the paper with what we chiropractors wear influences our patients’ perception of us, including your Groton chiropractor at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. That’s good for us to know! Scrubs make us look more knowledgeable, trustworthy, competent, professional and comfortable. White coats and formal wear came in second place. For women chiropractors, the white coat was more affirmative for them than when men wear them. (1) Interestingly, this issue of clothes does not concern only chiropractors. A study in Saudi Arabia found that patients preferred surgeons who wore scrubs and white coats, relating them to hygiene, dedication, and expertise. (2) Beyond their attire, chiropractors are working to refine their professional identity to better interact other healthcare colleagues who – according to other articles like the surgeon attire article – also work to polish their image and identity for their patients and collegial interactions. (3) One paper boldly concluded that “although the chiropractic profession may debate internally about its professional identity, the chiropractic identity seems to have already been established by society, practice, legislation, and education as a profession of health care providers whose area of expertise is spine care.” (4) Beginning with spine care is good for Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office! We know through experience that spine pain relief leads to our patients’ trusting us with other health issues. Bring on your Groton back pain and neck pain! We’ll wear our best scrubs, clothes and/or white coats! Together, let’s work on getting you feeling better!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Benjamin Fonke on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about the integration of exercise and The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to ease chronic low back pain.

TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise for just 10 minutes!

Have back pain? Don’t like to exercise? Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office gets it! What if we told you just 10 minutes can help? When you’re hurting, 10 minutes maybe tempting! A recent study reported that a short 10 minutes, easy-to-perform core stabilization exercise brought about significant low back pain relief for chronic low back pain patients. (5) What do you think about that? Effective. Immediate. Non-drug. Want to try? Let’s talk at your next Groton chiropractic appointment.

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Happy February!