For all the
discussion of artificial intelligence and the future of robots
and computers in our lives, the benefit of
human touch cannot be supplanted. Chiropractic is a
hands-on profession. Apple Country Chiropractic delivers hands-on Williamson
chiropractic care. Chiropractic has a long history of effective
manual manipulation and treatment for back pain, neck pain and related
extremity pain. Touch can’t be ignored in its impact on healing and isn’t ignored by your
Williamson chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is
implemented beginning with day one’s exam and extending through the whole
treatment process.
TOUCH IN THE DOCTOR PATIENT REALM
Touch in the doctor-patient relationship is
important. A new study states
that touch can produce neuromodulatory effects to ease
pain and reduce}decrease patient anxiety about the pain. Researchers
reported that the effect of touch begins with
the confident handshake and continues through the physical
examination, especially when the examining physician touches the area
the patient explains is painful. This lets the patient
know that the doctor gets
the patient’s pain. Touch also influences treatment for
manual and manipulative treating physicians. (1) The impact of
touch can’t be negated. Your
Williamson chiropractor at Apple Country Chiropractic knows
this to be true and witnesses its effect every day
and is pleased to see its importance discussed in
the medical literature for manual therapy’s beneficial role in the health care
system for conditions like Williamson back pain, neck pain, arm pain,
and sciatic leg pain.
EFFECT OF TOUCH
A researcher remarked
on an influential study’s outcomes regarding the
effect of spinal manipulation and exercise for back pain relief: “the data are
compatible with a non-specific effect caused by touch.” (2) Science tries
to quantify just how human touch affects back pain relief. Until then, chiropractic physicians like your Williamson chiropractor
will embrace the effect of touch as they deliver
spinal manipulation with their hands.
Williamson CHIROPRACTIC
TOUCH
Chiropractors depend on
their sense of touch in delivering the proper
forces to the spine, forces that deliver pain relief for the back
pain and neck pain patient. It takes experience to
really refine the proper force application. Today,
though, technology may be helpful in this area as
force-feedback systems are helping doctors acquire
that key experience. With the chiropractic technique system used
at Apple Country Chiropractic, research has documented just what those appropriate,
pain-relieving
forces are. (3,4) Force-measuring equipment has been
created and incorporated into teaching and
daily-use chiropractic tables. (As an extra, in doing
the research study to test forces with patients, no serious
adverse effects were documented. “First, do no
harm.”) (5,6) The Cox® Technic flexion distraction procedures used at
Apple Country Chiropractic are documented, gentle, and effective for easing
pain and dropping intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a
chiropractic treatment outcome combination our
Williamson chiropractic patients seek.
CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. James Cox on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explained
how Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and
chiropractic treatment may influence via senses like touch.
Make your next Williamson chiropractic
visit soon. Apple Country Chiropractic holds fast to our
commitment to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system
will replace your Williamson chiropractor’s hands!
Visit us soon!