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 feel their patients expect 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 conclusive and well-informed diagnosis and treatment plan as they normally do. (1) Recent analyses like one titled “Can You Be a Manual Therapist Without Using Your Hands?” wrote that telehealth has a place in assisting chronic musculoskeletal pain 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 approaches. Today, it is increasingly recognized for its beneficial contribution to relief. The nocebo effect was described as a potential negative effect on outcomes due to things like a patients’ past experiences, ideas, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s interaction with the patient. (3) Your West Des Moines chiropractor at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa strives to enhance any possible placebo effect and modulate 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 view as the chiropractic forte!
TIP OF THE MONTH: Reduce the (Disc) Pressure!
This recommendation can apply to blood pressure, holiday 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 utilizes protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD) spinal manipulation to reduce intradiscal pressures. In a new report, researchers documented significantly decrased 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 the pressures of life, but we can at least reduce one! Bring your painful spine to us. Reducing 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 details the value of disc nutrition in managing spine pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
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