BENEFITS OF CHIROPRACTIC HANDS-ON TREATMENT
What’s your view of chiropractic care? Chiropractors
see themselves as hands-on practitioners. They also feel
their patients look for hands-on treatment. 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 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 helping 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 yet chiropractic hands-on care is at the core
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 cometimes
credited with positive treatment
outcomes with these hands-on approaches. Today, it is increasingly
recognized as beneficial for
relief. The nocebo effect was explained as a potential negative
effect on outcomes because of things like a patients’ past
experiences, concepts, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s
interaction with the patient. (3) Your Auburn chiropractor works
to enhance any possible placebo effect and modulate
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 see 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 desire
to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are high causing low back pain, neck pain, radicular arm pain and
sciatic leg pain. The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management uses
protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD) spinal
manipulation to reduce intradiscal pressures. In a new report, researchers documented significantly
reduced 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 of life’s
pressures, but we can at least reduce one! Bring your
painful spine to us. Lowering 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 details the value
of disc nutrition in managing spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C.
Happy Holidays!
We appreciate your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Set your
next Auburn chiropractic appointment with
Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. soon!