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 look for 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 do a physical examination that would lead to as conclusive 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 pain and function improvement via advice
on exercise and such. 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 heart
of chiropractic. Three distinctly hands-on professions - chiropractic,
osteopathy, and physiotherapy – grapple with placebo and nocebo effects
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 as beneficial for
relief. The nocebo effect was explained 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 McHenry chiropractor works
to boost 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 be for
blood pressure, holiday expectation
pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors aspire
to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are high resulting
in 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 paper, researchers recorded significantly
decrased intradiscal pressures at all studied lumbar disc
levels purporting 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. Decreasing 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 value
of disc nutrition in managing spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT OrthoIllinois Chiropractic
Happy Holidays!
We appreciate your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Set your
next McHenry chiropractic visit with
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic now!