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 treatment. Recently, they faced with using remote consultations with some concern
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 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 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 – wrestle with placebo and nocebo effects
in their care delivery. Once, the placebo effect was cometimes
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 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 Largo chiropractor strives
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 view as the chiropractic forte!
TIP OF THE MONTH: Reduce the (Disc) Pressure!
This recommendation can apply to
blood pressure, holiday season 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 incorporates
protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD) spinal
manipulation to decrease intradiscal pressures. In a recently
published report, researchers recorded 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 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. Lowering spinal disc pressures
may even help you manage the other
pressures of life 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 details the value
of disc nutrition in controlling spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT Hollstrom & Associates Inc
Happy Holidays!
We appreciate your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Schedule your
next Largo chiropractic visit with
Hollstrom & Associates Inc soon!