Research: San Jose 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 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’s a sentence full of promise with supporting research behind its claims. Chiropractic Solutions individualizes a chiropractic treatment plan combining spinal manipulation mantimes the gentle form of Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression for our San Jose chiropractic patients after performing a detailed examination. San Jose 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. Experiencing neurological symptoms contributes to worldwide disability statistics as well as personal well-being and quality of life. A narrative review explained that most studies described how spinal manipulation eased spinal pain, may increase strength in asymptomatic people, and reportedly affected spasticity, muscle stiffness, motor function, autonomic function, and balance problems. Of course, an invitation for more studies to support these findings was issued. 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 San Jose 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 valuable as part of a multimodal approach. Advice, reassurance, education, self-management, usual medical care, home exercises, etc., were described 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 created.
SPINAL MANIPULATION RELIEF FOR BACK PAIN
A present study proposes that how chronic low back pain patients respond to SM stems from mechanisms of centralization (central sensitization) that can be tested via 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 described that spinal manipulation in part inhibited 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 incorporated placebo comparison but also noted that placebo and controls in a spinal manipulation study are tough to mask treatment versus no-treatment due to the hands-on nature 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 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 heighten patient outcomes by emphasizing the positive expectations of spinal manipulation treatment. (5) What do you think? Chiropractic Solutions knows our chiropractic patients can feel better understanding that their care is well-researched and supported by clinical trials that documented positive clinical outcomes for back pain relief.
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
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 San Jose chiropractic appointment today. Don’t let your quality of life suffer due to your back pain, related leg pain and or neurological sypmatomatology. Trust Chiropractic Solutions to thoroughly examine your spine and establish a relieving treatment plan for its care.
