Research: Largo Spinal Manipulation Relief of Back and Leg Pain, Neurological Symptoms
Researchers keep studying spinal manipulation to more fully explain how it contributes to pain relief for sufferers with back pain, related leg pain, and neurological symptoms that interfere with quality of life. Spinal manipulation (SM) eases back pain (acute, chronic), back-related leg pain, quality of life, neurological symptoms, and disability for sufferers. That’s a sentence full of promise which has research support behind its claims. Hollstrom & Associates Inc individualizes a chiropractic treatment plan incorporating spinal manipulation mantimes the gentle type of Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression for our Largo chiropractic patients after doing a detailed examination. Largo pain relief is imaginable.
NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS
Spinal pain patients as well as patients with neurological disorders like stroke have neurological symptoms that respond to spinal manipulation. Experiencing neurological symptoms contributes to worldwide disability statistics and personal well-being and quality of life. A narrative review noted that most studies reported the mechanism by which spinal manipulation reduced spinal pain, may improve strength in asymptomatic people, and reportedly affected spasticity, muscle stiffness, motor function, autonomic function, and balance challenges. Of course, an invitation for more studies to solidify these findings was issued. But the beneficial impact of spinal manipulation on the quality of life for spine pain sufferers, those with balance issues, and those with cerebral palsy were noted. (1) Such relief logically influences back pain treatment guidelines with which your Largo chiropractor confers to optimize your clinical back pain relief.
CLINICAL GUIDELINES FOR BACK PAIN
Researchers hunt through the published research papers to find the ones with reliability, coherence, etc. A recent guideline for the treatment of low back pain resolved that including spinal manipulation in the care of acute low back pain, chronic low back pain and chronic back-related leg pain was successful as part of a multimodal approach. Advice, reassurance, education, self-management, usual medical care, home exercises, etc., were reported as helpful in enhancing relief of pain and disability. (2) Guidelines like this for back pain must be based on research that explains how relief is produced.
SPINAL MANIPULATION RELIEF FOR BACK PAIN
A current study proposes that how chronic low back pain patients respond to SM stems from mechanisms of centralization (central sensitization) that can be analyzed using questionnaires, pressure pain threshold tests, inflammatory cytokine tests, and patient expectations of relief. The researchers expect to be able to forecast patient response. (3) Prior to this study, a narrative review described that spinal manipulation in part deterred neck pain and back pain via spinal cord mechanisms of pain relief and wondered what the role of inflammatory responses via peripheral mechanisms played in the relief. (4) Both studies incorporated placebo comparison but also noted that placebo and controls in a spinal manipulation study are difficult to disguise treatment versus no-treatment because of the hands-on nature of the treatment. An improved control/placebo could help clarify the contribution of the effects of SM on pain relief.
THE CHALLENGE OF PLACEBO
Back pain patients do not often question their pain relief. They don’t often ask “Was it this?” or “Was it that?” that finally got them feeling better, but researchers know that the placebo effect may well play a role based on patient expectations and conditioning. Researchers are now testing whether conditioning can enhance patient outcomes by sharing the positive expectations of spinal manipulation treatment. (5) What do you think? Hollstrom & Associates Inc knows our chiropractic patients can feel better understanding that their care is well-researched and supported by clinical trials that documented positive clinical outcomes for back pain relief.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Clint Dickason on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a patient with back pain and sciatica.
Schedule your Largo chiropractic appointment soon. Do not let your quality of life deteriorate due to your back pain, related leg pain and or neurological sypmatomatology. Trust Hollstrom & Associates Inc to thoroughly examine your spine and set a relieving treatment plan for its care.
