BENEFITS OF CHIROPRACTIC HANDS-ON TREATMENT
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 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 conclusive and
educated a diagnosis and treatment plan as they normally
do. (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 improvement to pain and function via guidance
on exercise and such. 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 – wrestle with placebo and nocebo impacts
in their care delivery. Once, the placebo effect was cometimes
mentioned as a way of negating positive treatment
outcomes with these hands-on methods. Today, it is increasingly
recognized 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 Montreal chiropractor works
to boost any possible placebo effect and downplay
any possible nocebo effect to provide 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 high contributing to 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 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 allow 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 bit 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 importance
of disc nutrition in controlling spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
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Happy Holidays!
We appreciate your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Make your
next Montreal chiropractic visit with
Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic now!