There is
news of artificial intelligence and the future of robots
and computers in our lives, the beneficial effect of
human touch can’t be supplanted. Chiropractic is a
hands-on profession. Johnson Chiropractic offers hands-on Richmond
chiropractic care. Chiropractic has a long history of valuable
manual manipulation and treatment for back pain, neck pain and related
extremity pain. Touch can’t be ignored in its contribution
to healing and is not ignored by your
Richmond chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is
set starting with the first
day’s exam and throughout the whole
treatment process.
TOUCH IN THE DOCTOR PATIENT REALM
Touch in the doctor-patient relationship is
central. A new study documents
that touch can initiate neuromodulatory effects to reduce
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, especially 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 effect of
touch cannot be refuted. Your
Richmond chiropractor at Johnson Chiropractic recognizes that this is true and sees 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 Richmond back pain, neck pain, arm pain,
and sciatic leg pain.
EFFECT OF TOUCH
A researcher remarked
on a leading 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 tries
to quantify just how human touch affects back pain relief. Until that
is done, chiropractic physicians like your Richmond chiropractor
will embrace the effect of touch as they deliver
spinal manipulation with their hands.
Richmond CHIROPRACTIC
TOUCH
Chiropractors depend on
their sense of touch in delivering the proper
forces to the spine, forces that provide 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 assisting doctors acquire
that key experience. With the chiropractic technique system utilized
at Johnson Chiropractic, research has documented just what those proper,
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 doing
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
Johnson Chiropractic are documented, gentle, and efficient for easing
pain and decreasing intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a
chiropractic treatment outcome arrangement our
Richmond chiropractic patients seek.
CONTACT Johnson Chiropractic
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 Richmond chiropractic
visit soon. Johnson Chiropractic is committed to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system
will substitute for your Richmond chiropractor’s hands!
Visit us soon!