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December 2022 Healthy News from Johnson Chiropractic Chiropractic Hands-on Care to Decrease Disc Pressures Among Other Benefits

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BENEFITS OF CHIROPRACTIC HANDS-ON TREATMENT

What is your view of chiropractic care? Chiropractors see themselves as hands-on practitioners. They also feel their patients expect hands-on treatment. Recently, they were challenged to use remote consultations as a concern was that these don’t allow for physical examination that would lead to as definitive and well-informed diagnosis and treatment plan as they normally do. (1) Recent analyses like one titled “Can You Be a Manual Therapist Without Using Your Hands?” described that telehealth has a place in assisting chronic musculoskeletal pain (back pain, neck pain, etc.) patients with improvement to pain and function via guidance on exercise, etc.. 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 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 communication with the patient. (3) Your Richmond chiropractor strives to enhance any possible placebo effect and modulate 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 view as the chiropractic forte!

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TIP OF THE MONTH:  Reduce the (Disc) Pressure!

This recommendation can apply to blood pressure, holiday expectation pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors desire to reduce intradiscal disc pressures when they are high 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 decrease intradiscal pressures. In a recently published report, researchers documented significantly reduced intradiscal pressures at all studied lumbar disc levels purporting that CTFDD may be able to draw back 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 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 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 importance of disc nutrition in managing spine pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

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