There’s
news of artificial intelligence and the future of robots
and computers in our lives, the benefit of
human touch cannot be replaced. Chiropractic is a
hands-on profession. Pflugerville Wellness Center delivers hands-on Pflugerville
chiropractic care. Chiropractic has an extensive history of valuable
manual manipulation and treatment for back pain, neck pain and related
extremity pain. Touch cannot be ignored in its impact on healing and is not ignored by your
Pflugerville chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is
established beginning with the first
day’s exam and extending through the entire
treatment process.
TOUCH IN THE DOCTOR PATIENT REALM
Touch in the doctor-patient relationship is
central. A new study shares
that touch can produce neuromodulatory effects to reduce
pain and ease patient anxiety about the pain. Researchers
stated that the effect of touch begins with
the confident handshake and continues through the physical
examination, particularly when the examining physician touches the area
the patient indicates is painful. This confirms to the patient that the doctor comprehends
the patient’s pain. Touch also influences treatment for
manual and manipulative treating physicians. (1) The impact of
touch cannot be refuted. Your
Pflugerville chiropractor at Pflugerville Wellness Center knows
this to be true and witnesses its effect daily
and is happy to see its importance presented in
the medical literature for manual therapy’s beneficial role in the health care
system for conditions like Pflugerville back pain, neck pain, arm pain,
and sciatic leg pain.
EFFECT OF TOUCH
A researcher commented
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 seeks to quantify just how human touch affects back pain relief. Until then, chiropractic physicians like your Pflugerville chiropractor
will welcome the effect of touch as they deliver
spinal manipulation with their hands.
Pflugerville CHIROPRACTIC
TOUCH
Chiropractors depend on
their sense of touch in providing the appropriate
forces to the spine, forces that deliver pain relief for the back
pain and neck pain patient. Experience really refines the appropriate force application. Today,
though, technology may be helpful in this area as
force-feedback systems are assisting doctors gain
that key experience. With the chiropractic technique system utilized
at Pflugerville Wellness Center, research has reported 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 a bonus, in performing
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
Pflugerville Wellness Center are documented, gentle, and effective for reducing
pain and decreasing intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a
chiropractic treatment outcome arrangement our
Pflugerville chiropractic patients seek.
CONTACT Pflugerville Wellness Center
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.
Set your next Pflugerville chiropractic
visit soon. Pflugerville Wellness Center is committed to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system
will replace your Pflugerville chiropractor’s hands!
See you soon!