There is
talk 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. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation delivers hands-on Carrolltown
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 isn’t ignored by your
Carrolltown chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is
established beginning with day one’s exam and throughout the entire
treatment process.
TOUCH IN THE DOCTOR PATIENT REALM
Touch in the doctor-patient relationship is
important. A new study shares
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 continues through the physical
examination, particularly when the examining physician touches the area
the patient indicates is painful. This lets the patient
know that the doctor comprehends
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 witnesses its effect every day
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 Carrolltown 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) Human
touch has an effect that science seeks to quantify. 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 proper
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 with this as
force-feedback systems are helping doctors gain
that key 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
developed 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
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation are documented, gentle, and efficient for easing
pain and dropping intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a
chiropractic treatment outcome arrangement our
Carrolltown chiropractic patients want.
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Check out 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.
Schedule 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 substitute for your Carrolltown chiropractor’s hands!
Come by soon!