For all the
talk 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 an extensive history of valuable
manual manipulation and treatment for back pain, neck pain and related
extremity pain. Touch can’t be dismissed in its impact on healing and is not ignored by your
Oxford chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is
implemented beginning with the first
day’s exam and throughout the whole
treatment process.
TOUCH IN THE DOCTOR PATIENT REALM
Touch in the relationship between
doctor and patient is
central. A recent report documents
that touch can initiate neuromodulatory effects to reduce
pain and reduce}decrease patient anxiety about the pain. Researchers
stated 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 explains is painful. This lets the patient
know that the doctor gets
the patient’s pain. Touch also influences treatment for
manual and manipulative treating physicians. (1) The impact of
touch can’t be refuted. Your
Oxford chiropractor at Satterwhite Chiropractic knows
this to be 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 Oxford back pain, neck pain, arm pain,
and sciatic leg pain.
EFFECT OF TOUCH
A researcher remarked
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 seeks to quantify. Until that
is done, chiropractic physicians like your Oxford chiropractor
will embrace the effect of touch as they deliver
spinal manipulation with their hands.
Oxford CHIROPRACTIC
TOUCH
Chiropractors rely on
their sense of touch in delivering the appropriate
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 with this as
force-feedback systems are helping doctors acquire
that key experience. With the chiropractic technique system used
at Satterwhite Chiropractic, research has documented just what those appropriate,
pain-relieving
forces are. (3,4) Force-measuring equipment has been
created and incorporated into teaching and
daily-use chiropractic tables. (As an extra, in doing
the research study to assess forces with patients, no serious
adverse effects were found. “First, do no
harm.”) (5,6) The Cox® Technic flexion distraction procedures used at
Satterwhite Chiropractic are documented, gentle, and effective for relieving
pain and decreasing intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a
chiropractic treatment outcome arrangement our
Oxford chiropractic patients want.
CONTACT Satterwhite Chiropractic
Listen to 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.
Set your next Oxford chiropractic
visit soon. 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!
See you soon!