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 suspect that
their patients expect hands-on treatment. Recently, they were challenged
to use remote consultations as a concern was that these do not allow
for physical examination that would lead to as conclusive and
well-informed diagnosis and treatment plan as they normally
do. (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 improvement to pain and function 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 core
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 often
ascribed for positive treatment
outcomes with these hands-on methods. Today, it is increasingly
seen 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 La Grande chiropractor strives
to boost any possible placebo effect and downplay
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 see as the chiropractic forte!
TIP OF THE MONTH: Reduce the (Disc) Pressure!
This advice can be for
blood pressure, holiday expectation
pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors want
to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are elevated 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 recently
published report, researchers recorded significantly
lowered 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. Reducing 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 managing spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
Happy Holidays!
We appreciate your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Set your
next La Grande chiropractic appointment with
Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC now!