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. Recently, 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
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 helping chronic musculoskeletal pain (back pain, neck pain, etc.) patients
with improvement to pain and function via guidance
on exercise and such. Some other positives were convenience,
flexibility, undivided attention, self-management, exercise guidance, pain
education, etc. (2) And still chiropractic hands-on care is at the core
of chiropractic. Three distinctly hands-on professions - chiropractic,
osteopathy, and physiotherapy – wrestle with placebo and nocebo effects
in their care delivery. In the past, the placebo effect was cometimes
ascribed for positive treatment
outcomes with these hands-on methods. Today, it is increasingly
recognized as beneficial for
relief. The nocebo effect was described as a potential negative
effect on outcomes because of things like a patients’ past
experiences, concepts, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s
communication with the patient. (3) Your Toronto 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 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 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 uses
protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD) spinal
manipulation to lower intradiscal pressures. In a new 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. Decreasing spinal disc pressures
may even help you cope better with other life pressures 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 describes the importance
of disc nutrition in controlling spine pain with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
Happy Holidays!
We are grateful for your placing your
spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Make your
next Toronto chiropractic visit with
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre now!