For all the
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. Most Chiropractic Clinic offers hands-on Murfreesboro
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 contribution
to healing and is not ignored by your
Murfreesboro chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is
implemented beginning with day one’s exam and throughout the whole
treatment process.
TOUCH IN THE DOCTOR PATIENT REALM
Touch in the relationship between
doctor and patient is
fundamental. A new study shares
that touch can initiate neuromodulatory effects to ease
pain and ease patient anxiety about the pain. Researchers
wrote 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 says 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 effect of
touch cannot be refuted. Your
Murfreesboro chiropractor at Most Chiropractic Clinic 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 Murfreesboro 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) Human
touch has an effect that science seeks to quantify. Until that
is done, chiropractic physicians like your Murfreesboro chiropractor
will embrace the effect of touch as they deliver
spinal manipulation with their hands.
Murfreesboro 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. 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 used
at Most Chiropractic Clinic, 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 a bonus, in performing
the research study to assess forces with patients, no serious
adverse effects were documented. “First, do no
harm.”) (5,6) The Cox® Technic flexion distraction procedures used at
Most Chiropractic Clinic are documented, gentle, and efficient for easing
pain and dropping intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a
chiropractic treatment outcome arrangement our
Murfreesboro chiropractic patients seek.
CONTACT Most Chiropractic 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.
Make your next Murfreesboro chiropractic
visit today. Most Chiropractic Clinic holds fast to our
commitment to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system
will substitute for your Murfreesboro chiropractor’s hands!
See you soon!