For all the
talk 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. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic offers hands-on Fernandina Beach
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 impact on healing and is not ignored by your
Fernandina Beach chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is
set starting 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 report documents
that touch can produce neuromodulatory effects to reduce
pain and ease patient anxiety about the pain. Researchers
wrote 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 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 denied. Your
Fernandina Beach chiropractor at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic knows
this to be true and sees its effect every day
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 Fernandina Beach back pain, neck pain, arm pain,
and sciatic leg pain.
EFFECT OF TOUCH
A researcher remarked
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) Science seeks to quantify just how human touch affects back pain relief. Until that
is done, chiropractic physicians like your Fernandina Beach chiropractor
will embrace the effect of touch as they deliver
spinal manipulation with their hands.
Fernandina Beach CHIROPRACTIC
TOUCH
Chiropractors depend 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 appropriate force application. Today,
though, technology may help in this area as
force-feedback systems are helping doctors acquire
that key experience. With the chiropractic technique system utilized
at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic, research has documented just what those proper,
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 test forces with patients, no serious
adverse effects were found. “First, do no
harm.”) (5,6) The Cox® Technic flexion distraction procedures used at
Amelia Chiropractic Clinic are documented, gentle, and efficient for relieving
pain and decreasing intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a
chiropractic treatment outcome arrangement our
Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients seek.
CONTACT Amelia Chiropractic Clinic
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.
Make your next Fernandina Beach chiropractic
visit soon. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is committed to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system
will replace your Fernandina Beach chiropractor’s hands!
Visit us soon!