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

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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 care. Recently, they faced with using remote consultations with some trepidation as there was a limitation with their not being able to do a physical examination that would lead to as conclusive and educated a diagnosis and treatment plan as they normally do. (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 pain and function improvement via guidance 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 heart of chiropractic. Three distinctly hands-on professions - chiropractic, osteopathy, and physiotherapy – grapple with placebo and nocebo effects in their care delivery. Once, the placebo effect was cometimes credited with positive treatment outcomes with these hands-on approaches. Today, it is increasingly recognized for its beneficial contribution to relief. The nocebo effect was described as a potential negative effect on outcomes because of things like a patients’ past experiences, ideas, expectations, and even a healthcare professional’s interaction with the patient. (3) Your Manahawkin chiropractor strives to boost any possible placebo effect and downplay any possible nocebo effect to provide 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 advice can be for blood pressure, holiday pressure, peer pressure! In the chiropractic world, we chiropractors aspire 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 documented significantly lowered intradiscal pressures at all studied lumbar disc levels proposing that CTFDD may be able to draw back 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 manage the other pressures of life 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 value of disc nutrition in controlling spine pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

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