Touch is Part of Layden Chiropractics Relieving Back Pain Care
For all the 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. Layden Chiropractic offers hands-on Plainville 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 dismissed in its influence on healing and is not ignored by your Plainville chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is set starting with the first day’s exam and extending through the entire 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 stated that the effect of touch starts 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 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 Plainville chiropractor at Layden Chiropractic knows this to be true and sees its effect daily and is happy to see its importance discussed in the medical literature for manual therapy’s beneficial role in the health care system for conditions like Plainville 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) Human touch has an effect that science tries to quantify. Until then, chiropractic physicians like your Plainville chiropractor will embrace the effect of touch as they provide spinal manipulation with their hands.
Plainville CHIROPRACTIC TOUCH
Chiropractors rely on their sense of touch in providing 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 appropriate force application. Today, though, technology may help in this area as force-feedback systems are helping doctors achieve that key experience. With the chiropractic technique system utilized at Layden Chiropractic, research has documented just what those appropriate, pain-relieving forces are. (3,4) Force-measuring equipment has been created and integrated into teaching and daily-use chiropractic tables. (As an extra, in performing the research study to test forces with patients, no serious adverse effects were found. “First, do no harm.”) (5,6) The Cox® Technic flexion distraction procedures used at Layden Chiropractic are documented, gentle, and effective for relieving pain and dropping intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a chiropractic treatment outcome combination our Plainville chiropractic patients want.
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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 Plainville chiropractic visit today. Layden Chiropractic holds fast to our commitment to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system will substitute for your Plainville chiropractor’s hands! See you soon!
