Touch is Part of Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitations Relieving Back Pain Care
There is discussion of artificial intelligence and the future of robots and computers in our lives, the beneficial effect of human touch cannot be replaced. Chiropractic is a hands-on profession. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation offers hands-on Carrolltown chiropractic care. Chiropractic has an extensive history of effective 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 Carrolltown chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is established beginning with day one’s exam and extending through the whole treatment process.
TOUCH IN THE DOCTOR PATIENT REALM
Touch in the relationship between doctor and patient is central. 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 starts with the confident handshake and extends 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 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 Carrolltown chiropractor at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation knows this to be true and sees its effect daily 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 Carrolltown back pain, neck pain, arm pain, and sciatic leg pain.
EFFECT OF TOUCH
A researcher commented on a leading 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 then, chiropractic physicians like your Carrolltown chiropractor will welcome the effect of touch as they provide spinal manipulation with their hands.
Carrolltown CHIROPRACTIC TOUCH
Chiropractors rely 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. 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 gain that vital experience. With the chiropractic technique system utilized at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation, research has reported 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 a bonus, in doing the research study to assess forces with patients, no serious adverse effects were found. “First, do no harm.”) (5,6) The Cox® Technic flexion distraction procedures used at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation are documented, gentle, and efficient for reducing pain and decreasing intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a chiropractic treatment outcome combination our Carrolltown chiropractic patients seek.
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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.
Make your next Carrolltown chiropractic visit today. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation holds fast to our commitment to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system will replace your Carrolltown chiropractor’s hands! Come by soon!
