BENEFITS OF CHIROPRACTIC HANDS-ON TREATMENT
What’s your view of chiropractic care? Chiropractors
see themselves as hands-on practitioners. They also feel
their patients expect hands-on treatment. Recently, 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
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 helping chronic musculoskeletal pain (back pain, neck pain, etc.) patients
with pain and function improvement via guidance
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 – grapple with placebo and nocebo impacts
in their care delivery. In the past, the placebo effect was often
credited with positive treatment
outcomes with these hands-on methods. Today, it is increasingly
recognized for its beneficial contribution to
relief. The nocebo effect was explained 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 West Des Moines chiropractor strives
to boost 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 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 desire
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 decrease intradiscal pressures. In a recently
published paper, researchers documented significantly
reduced intradiscal pressures at all studied lumbar disc
levels purporting that CTFDD may be able to draw back
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 the pressures of life, but we can at least reduce one! Bring your
painful spine to us. Lowering 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 value
of disc nutrition in managing spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT Executive Chiropractic of Iowa
Happy Holidays!
We appreciate your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Schedule your
next West Des Moines chiropractic visit with
Executive Chiropractic of Iowa soon!