Touch is Part of Satterwhite Chiropractics Relieving Back Pain Care
There’s news 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. Satterwhite Chiropractic offers hands-on Oxford chiropractic care. Chiropractic has a long history of effective manual manipulation and treatment for back pain, neck pain and related extremity pain. Touch cannot be ignored in its impact on healing and is not ignored by your Oxford chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is set starting with day one’s exam and extending through the entire treatment process.
TOUCH IN THE DOCTOR PATIENT REALM
Touch in the doctor-patient relationship is important. A recent study states that touch can produce neuromodulatory effects to reduce pain and ease patient anxiety about the pain. Researchers reported that the effect of touch begins with the confident handshake and continues through the physical examination, especially when the examining physician touches the area the patient indicates is painful. This lets the patient know that the doctor gets the patient’s pain. Touch also extends into treatment for manual and manipulative treating physicians. (1) The effect of touch cannot be refuted. Your Oxford chiropractor at Satterwhite Chiropractic recognizes that this is true and witnesses 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 Oxford 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) Human touch has an effect that science seeks to quantify. Until that is done, chiropractic physicians like your Oxford chiropractor will welcome the effect of touch as they deliver spinal manipulation with their hands.
Oxford CHIROPRACTIC TOUCH
Chiropractors rely on their sense of touch in providing the appropriate forces to the spine, forces that deliver pain relief for the back pain and neck pain patient. Experience really refines the proper force application. Today, though, technology may be helpful with this as force-feedback systems are helping doctors acquire that key experience. With the chiropractic technique system utilized at Satterwhite Chiropractic, 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 documented. “First, do no harm.”) (5,6) The Cox® Technic flexion distraction procedures used at Satterwhite Chiropractic are documented, gentle, and efficient for relieving pain and decreasing intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a chiropractic treatment outcome arrangement our Oxford chiropractic patients seek.
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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 Oxford chiropractic visit today. Satterwhite Chiropractic holds fast to our commitment to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system will substitute for your Oxford chiropractor’s hands! Come by soon!
