Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

The Power of Perception in Chiropractic Care

15 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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A short video by Jeff Langmaid introducing research on factors that influence patients' perceived treatment effect following spinal adjustments. Langmaid frames patient expectation and provider communication as major contributors to clinical outcomes, linking perception and placebo effects (not as dismissive of chiropractic care but as a meaningful component). He references a 2024 Chiropractic & Manual Therapies study and promises a link in the show notes.

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Today, we are talking research, and we are discussing the factors that contribute to the perceived treatment effect of a spinal adjustment. This came out in chiropractic and manual therapies in 2024. As you can expect, I will drop a link down in the show notes if you would like to check it out. And this is a good one, because how a patient perceives what's going to happen, there's a tie in here to placebo. Not that what we do is placebo, but I don't view that as a bad word in any way, shape or form. Placebo is important. It ties into the belief that somebody is on the right track and you, as a provider, are directly causative to that. And things that you do, things that you say. All of the factors we discussed today, and more, really do affect the clinical results beyond the physical care that you deliver in your practice.