Touch is Part of OrthoIllinois Chiropractics Relieving Back Pain Care
For all the news of artificial intelligence and the future of robots and computers in our lives, the benefit of human touch can’t be supplanted. Chiropractic is a hands-on profession. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic offers hands-on McHenry chiropractic care. Chiropractic has an extensive history of effective manual manipulation and treatment for back pain, neck pain and related extremity pain. Touch can’t be dismissed in its influence on healing and is not ignored by your McHenry chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is established beginning with day one’s exam and throughout 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 wrote that the effect of touch starts with the confident handshake and continues through the physical examination, particularly when the physician doing the exam 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 can’t be refuted. Your McHenry chiropractor at OrthoIllinois 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 McHenry back pain, neck pain, arm pain, and sciatic leg pain.
EFFECT OF TOUCH
A researcher commented on an influential 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) Human touch has an effect that science tries to quantify. Until that is done, chiropractic physicians like your McHenry chiropractor will welcome the effect of touch as they provide spinal manipulation with their hands.
McHenry CHIROPRACTIC TOUCH
Chiropractors depend on their sense of touch in delivering the appropriate forces to the spine, forces that provide pain relief for the back pain and neck pain patient. It takes experience to really refine the proper force application. Today, though, technology may be helpful with this as force-feedback systems are helping doctors achieve that vital experience. With the chiropractic technique system used at OrthoIllinois 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 documented. “First, do no harm.”) (5,6) The Cox® Technic flexion distraction procedures used at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic are documented, gentle, and efficient for easing pain and dropping intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a chiropractic treatment outcome combination our McHenry 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 explained how Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and chiropractic treatment may influence via senses like touch.
Schedule your next McHenry chiropractic visit today. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is committed to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system will substitute for your McHenry chiropractor’s hands! See you soon!
