December 2022 Healthy News from Aaron Chiropractic Clinic 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 suspect that their patients expect hands-on treatment. In recent years, they faced with using remote consultations with some concern as there was a limitation with their not being able to perform a physical examination that would lead to as definitive and educated a diagnosis and treatment plan as they would like. (1) Recent analyses like one named “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 advice 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 – grapple 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 recognized as beneficial for relief. The nocebo effect was explained as a potential negative effect on outcomes due to things like a patients’ past experiences, ideas, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s interaction with the patient. (3) Your Fort Wayne chiropractor strives to enhance 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!

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

This recommendation can be for blood pressure, holiday 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 utilizes protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD) spinal manipulation to reduce intradiscal pressures. In a recently published paper, 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 allow better flow of nutrients into the disc. (4) We may not be able to reduce all of life’s pressures, but we can at least reduce one! Bring your painful spine to us. Lowering 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 details the importance of disc nutrition in controlling spine pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

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Happy Holidays!

We appreciate your placing your spinal health needs in our hands all year long! Make your next Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment with Aaron Chiropractic Clinic soon! 

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