Research: Concord, NC Spinal Manipulation Relief of Back and Leg Pain, Neurological Symptoms
Researchers continually study spinal manipulation to more fully describe its contributions to pain relief for sufferers with back pain, related leg pain, and neurological symptoms that interfere with 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 potential with supporting research behind its claims. Pure Chiropractic personalizes a chiropractic treatment plan combining spinal manipulation mantimes the gentle form of Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression for our Concord, NC chiropractic patients after performing a thorough examination. Concord, NC pain relief is possible.
NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS
Spinal pain patients as well as patients experiencing neurological disorders like stroke have neurological symptoms that react to spinal manipulation. Suffering with neurological symptoms contributes to worldwide disability statistics as well as personal well-being and quality of life. A narrative review explained that most studies reported how spinal manipulation eased spinal pain, may increase strength in asymptomatic people, and reportedly impacted spasticity, muscle stiffness, motor function, autonomic function, and balance problems. Of course, a call 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 noted. (1) Such relief logically influences back pain treatment guidelines with which your Concord, NC chiropractor confers to boost your clinical back pain relief.
CLINICAL GUIDELINES FOR BACK PAIN
Researchers hunt through the published research papers to obtain the ones with reliability, coherence, etc. A recent guideline for the treatment of low back pain resolved that incorporating spinal manipulation in the care of acute low back pain, chronic low back pain and chronic back-related leg pain was valuable as part of a multimodal approach. Advice, reassurance, education, self-management, usual medical care, home exercises, etc., were reported as helpful in enhancing relief of pain and disability. (2) Guidelines like this for back pain must be based on research that explains 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 anticipate being able to predict 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 documented that placebo and controls in a spinal manipulation study are difficult to conceal treatment versus no-treatment because of the hands-on character of the treatment. An improved control/placebo could help clarify the contribution of the effects of SM 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 sealed the deal on getting them out of pain, but researchers know that the placebo effect may well be influential based on patient expectations and conditioning. Researchers are now testing whether conditioning can heighten patient outcomes by sharing the positive expectations of spinal manipulation treatment. (5) What do you think? Pure Chiropractic knows our chiropractic patients can feel better knowing 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 illustrates the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a patient with back pain and sciatica.
Schedule your Concord, NC chiropractic appointment soon. Pure Chiropractic hopes that you don’t let your quality of life suffer because of your back pain, related leg pain and or neurological sypmatomatology. Trust Pure Chiropractic to thoroughly examine your spine and set a relieving treatment plan for its care.
