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 look for hands-on treatment. In
recent years, 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
well-informed diagnosis and treatment plan as they would like. (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 (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 yet chiropractic hands-on care is at the center
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
ascribed for positive treatment
outcomes with these hands-on approaches. Today, it is increasingly
seen for its beneficial contribution to
relief. The nocebo effect was described as a potential negative
effect on outcomes because of things like a patients’ past
experiences, ideas, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s
interaction with the patient. (3) Your Pensacola chiropractor strives
to boost 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 apply to
blood pressure, holiday expectation
pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors want
to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are elevated resulting
in 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 lower intradiscal pressures. In a new paper, researchers recorded significantly
decrased 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. 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 controlling spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center
Happy Holidays!
We appreciate your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Set your
next Pensacola chiropractic appointment with
Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center soon!