Research: Manahawkin Spinal Manipulation Relief of Back and Leg Pain, Neurological Symptoms
Researchers continually study spinal manipulation to more fully explain how it contributes to pain relief for sufferers with back pain, related leg pain, and neurological symptoms that disrupt quality of life. Spinal manipulation (SM) alleviates back pain (acute, chronic), back-related leg pain, quality of life, neurological symptoms, and disability for sufferers. That is a sentence full of promise which has research support behind its claims. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center individualizes a chiropractic treatment plan incorporating spinal manipulation oftentimes the gentle type of Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression for our Manahawkin chiropractic patients after performing a detailed examination. Manahawkin pain relief is possible.
NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS
Spinal pain patients as well as patients with neurological disorders like stroke have neurological symptoms that respond to spinal manipulation. Suffering with neurological symptoms contributes to worldwide disability statistics and personal well-being and quality of life. A narrative review noted that most studies described how spinal manipulation decreased spinal pain, may improve strength in asymptomatic people, and reportedly impacted spasticity, muscle stiffness, motor function, autonomic function, and balance challenges. Of course, an invitation for more studies to solidify these findings was made. 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 described. (1) Such relief logically influences back pain treatment guidelines with which your Manahawkin chiropractor confers to optimize your clinical back pain relief.
CLINICAL GUIDELINES FOR BACK PAIN
Researchers search the published research papers to obtain the ones with reliability, coherence, etc. A newer guideline for the treatment of low back pain concluded that including spinal manipulation in the treatment plan 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 listed as helpful in improving pain and disability. (2) Guidelines like this for back pain must be based on research that describes how relief is produced.
SPINAL MANIPULATION RELIEF FOR BACK PAIN
A present study intends to see whether chronic low back pain patients’ response to SM stems from mechanisms of centralization (central sensitization) that can be tested 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) Before this study, a narrative review noted 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 included placebo comparison but also noted that placebo and controls in a spinal manipulation study are difficult to mask treatment versus no-treatment due to the hands-on character of the treatment. An improved control/placebo could help clarify the contribution of spinal manipulation’s effects on pain relief.
THE CHALLENGE OF PLACEBO
Back pain patients don’t 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 emphasizing the positive expectations of spinal manipulation treatment. (5) What do you think? Manahawkin Chiropractic Center knows our chiropractic patients can feel better understanding that their care is well-researched and supported by clinical trials that showed 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-related-leg pain.
Make your Manahawkin chiropractic appointment today. Do not let your quality of life deteriorate due to your back pain, related leg pain and or neurological sypmatomatology. Trust Manahawkin Chiropractic Center to thoroughly examine your spine and set a relieving treatment plan for its care.
