There is
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. Spinal Care Clinic delivers hands-on Burlington and Hamilton
chiropractic care. Chiropractic has a long history of valuable
manual manipulation and treatment for back pain, neck pain and related
extremity pain. Touch cannot be ignored in its influence on healing and is not ignored by your
Burlington and Hamilton chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is
implemented starting 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
fundamental. A recent study documents
that touch can produce neuromodulatory effects to ease
pain and ease patient anxiety about the pain. Researchers
reported that the effect of touch begins with
the confident handshake and continues through the physical
examination, particularly when the physician
doing the exam touches the spot
the patient says is painful. This lets the patient
know that the doctor understands
the patient’s pain. Touch also influences treatment for
manual and manipulative treating physicians. (1) The impact of
touch can’t be refuted. Your
Burlington and Hamilton chiropractor at Spinal Care Clinic knows
this to be true and witnesses its effect daily
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 Burlington and Hamilton back pain, neck pain, arm pain,
and sciatic leg pain.
EFFECT OF TOUCH
A researcher commented
on an influential study’s outcomes about 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 seeks to quantify just how human touch affects back pain relief. Until that
is done, chiropractic physicians like your Burlington and Hamilton chiropractor
will welcome the effect of touch as they provide
spinal manipulation with their hands.
Burlington and Hamilton CHIROPRACTIC
TOUCH
Chiropractors depend on
their sense of touch in delivering the appropriate
forces to the spine, forces that provide pain relief for the back
pain and neck pain patient. It takes experience to
really refine the proper force application. Today,
though, technology may help in this area as
force-feedback systems are assisting doctors achieve
that vital experience. With the chiropractic technique system utilized
at Spinal Care Clinic, 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 assess forces with patients, no serious
adverse effects were produced. “First, do no
harm.”) (5,6) The Cox® Technic flexion distraction procedures used at
Spinal Care Clinic are documented, gentle, and efficient for easing
pain and decreasing intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a
chiropractic treatment outcome arrangement our
Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic patients seek.
CONTACT Spinal Care Clinic
Check out 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.
Schedule your next Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic
visit today. Spinal Care Clinic holds fast to our
commitment to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system
will substitute for your Burlington and Hamilton chiropractor’s hands!
Come by soon!