90 | Is an adjustment or manipulation really putting you back in place?
Welcome to episode 90 of The Optimal Body Podcast
Is an adjustment or manipulation really putting you back into place?
Love the feel-good crackles and pops when you receive an adjustment? Feeling helpless and in pain, because you can’t get to your PT during lockdown? “Once you pop the fun don’t stop?” Dr. Jen & Dr. Dom spill the truths about what is really happening when you receive an adjustment. In essence, it all comes down to “talking” to the tissues and the brains’ perception. Dr. Jen provides insight into her previous beliefs around her scoliosis and the manual therapy she received. By talking into the beliefs that surround physical adjustments and how they are used to reel clients back, Dr. Jen & Dr. Dom educate you with scientific literature and empower you with ways in which you can start to achieve that feel-good adjustment sensation in the comfort of your own home. Finally, they speak into holistic health and how feeling something different in your body expands beyond movement and physical manipulation, but into food, sleep, environment, and most definitely, your mindset. Listen in to re-educate yourself around the beliefs around physical adjustments.
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What you will learn in this PT Pearl:
2:50 – Defining alignment
5;06 – The science behind that feel-good crack or pop?
7:19 – The PT trick to get you to come back
9:00 – Jen’s beliefs around her scoliosis adjustments
11:25 – Ways to feel that adjustment on your own
17:02 – Persistence of symptoms with stress & habit
20:15 – Research comparing spinal manipulation
21:25 – Headaches
23:50 – Reflecting on the Move 2 Improve Challenge
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Sources cited
Demoulin, C., Baeri, D., Toussaint, G., Cagnie, B., Beernaert, A., Kaux, J.-F. and Vanderthommen, (2018). Beliefs in the population about cracking sounds produced during spinal manipulation. Joint Bone Spine, 85(2), pp.239–242.
de Toledo, D. de F.A., Kochem, F.B. and Silva, J.G. (2019). High-velocity, low-amplitude manipulation (HVLA) does not alter three-dimensional position of sacroiliac joint in healthy men: A quasi-experimental study. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies.
Evans, R., Bronfort, G., Schulz, C., Maiers, M., Bracha, Y., Svendsen, K., Grimm, R., Garvey, T. and Transfeldt, E. (2012). Supervised exercise with and without spinal manipulation performs similarly and better than home exercise for chronic neck pain. Spine, 37(11), pp.903–914.
Fernandez, M., Moore, C., Tan, J., Lian, D., Nguyen, J., Bacon, A., Christie, B., Shen, I., Waldie, T., Simonet, D. and Bussières, A. (2020). Spinal manipulation for the management of cervicogenic headache: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. European Journal of Pain, 24(9), pp.1687–1702.
Haavik, H., Niazi, I., Jochumsen, M., Sherwin, D., Flavel, S. and Türker, K. (2016). Impact of spinal manipulation on cortical drive to upper and lower limb muscles. Brain Sciences, 7(12), p.2.
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