BENEFITS OF CHIROPRACTIC HANDS-ON TREATMENT
What’s your view of chiropractic care? Chiropractors
see themselves as hands-on practitioners. They also suspect that
their patients expect 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 named “Can You Be a
Manual Therapist Without Using Your Hands?” wrote that
telehealth has a place in assisting chronic musculoskeletal pain (back pain, neck pain, etc.) patients
with improvement to pain and function 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 effects
in their care delivery. In the past, the placebo effect was often
ascribed for positive treatment
outcomes with these hands-on approaches. Today, it is increasingly
seen as beneficial for
relief. The nocebo effect was described as a potential negative
effect on outcomes because of things like a patients’ past
experiences, concepts, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s
communication with the patient. (3) Your West Palm Beach chiropractor strives
to boost any possible placebo effect and downplay
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 be for
blood pressure, holiday season expectation
pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors desire
to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are elevated 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 decrease intradiscal pressures. In a recently
published paper, researchers documented significantly
decrased intradiscal pressures at all studied lumbar disc
levels proposing 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. Decreasing spinal disc pressures
may even help you manage the other
pressures of life 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 Chiropractic Care
Happy Holidays!
We appreciate your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Make your
next West Palm Beach chiropractic appointment with
Chiropractic Care soon!