There’s
discussion of artificial intelligence and the future of robots
and computers in our lives, the positive effect of
human touch can’t be supplanted. Chiropractic is a
hands-on profession. Chiropractic Care offers hands-on West Palm Beach
chiropractic care. Chiropractic has a long history of valuable
manual manipulation and treatment for back pain, neck pain and related
extremity pain. Touch can’t be dismissed in its influence on healing and isn’t ignored by your
West Palm Beach chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is
implemented beginning with the first
day’s exam and throughout the entire
treatment process.
TOUCH IN THE DOCTOR PATIENT REALM
Touch in the doctor-patient relationship is
important. A new report documents
that touch can produce neuromodulatory effects to ease
pain and reduce}decrease patient anxiety about the pain. Researchers
stated that the effect of touch starts with
the confident handshake and continues through the physical
examination, especially when the physician
conducting the exam touches the spot
the patient says is painful. This confirms to the patient that the doctor gets
the patient’s pain. Touch also extends into treatment for
manual and manipulative treating physicians. (1) The effect of
touch can’t be refuted. Your
West Palm Beach chiropractor at Chiropractic Care knows
this to be true and witnesses its effect every day
and is pleased to see its importance presented in
the medical literature for manual therapy’s beneficial role in the health care
system for conditions like West Palm Beach back pain, neck pain, arm pain,
and sciatic leg pain.
EFFECT OF TOUCH
A researcher remarked
on a leading 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) Human
touch has an effect that science seeks to quantify. Until that
is done, chiropractic physicians like your West Palm Beach chiropractor
will welcome the effect of touch as they deliver
spinal manipulation with their hands.
West Palm Beach CHIROPRACTIC
TOUCH
Chiropractors rely on
their sense of touch in providing 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 appropriate force application. Today,
though, technology may help in this area as
force-feedback systems are assisting doctors acquire
that key experience. With the chiropractic technique system utilized
at Chiropractic Care, research has documented just what those proper,
pain-relieving
forces are. (3,4) Force-measuring equipment has been
developed and integrated into teaching and
daily-use chiropractic tables. (As an extra, in doing
the research study to assess forces with patients, no serious
adverse effects were produced. “First, do no
harm.”) (5,6) The Cox® Technic flexion distraction procedures used at
Chiropractic Care are documented, gentle, and effective for reducing
pain and dropping intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a
chiropractic treatment outcome arrangement our
West Palm Beach chiropractic patients seek.
CONTACT Chiropractic Care
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. James Cox on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he described
how Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and
chiropractic treatment may influence via senses like touch.
Make your next West Palm Beach chiropractic
visit soon. Chiropractic Care holds fast to our
commitment to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system
will replace your West Palm Beach chiropractor’s hands!
Come by soon!