There’s
talk 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. Vancouver Disc Centers delivers hands-on Vancouver
chiropractic care. Chiropractic has a long 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
Vancouver chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is
established 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
important. A recent study documents
that touch can produce neuromodulatory effects to ease
pain and reduce}decrease patient anxiety about the pain. Researchers
wrote that the effect of touch begins with
the confident handshake and extends through the physical
examination, particularly when the physician
doing the exam touches the area
the patient indicates 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 denied. Your
Vancouver chiropractor at Vancouver Disc Centers recognizes that this is true and sees 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 Vancouver 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 seeks to quantify. Until then, chiropractic physicians like your Vancouver chiropractor
will welcome the effect of touch as they provide
spinal manipulation with their hands.
Vancouver 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. Experience really refines the appropriate force application. Today,
though, technology may help in this area as
force-feedback systems are assisting doctors gain
that key experience. With the chiropractic technique system utilized
at Vancouver Disc Centers, research has reported just what those appropriate,
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 performing
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
Vancouver Disc Centers are documented, gentle, and efficient for easing
pain and dropping intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a
chiropractic treatment outcome combination our
Vancouver chiropractic patients want.
CONTACT Vancouver Disc Centers
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.
Set your next Vancouver chiropractic
visit soon. Vancouver Disc Centers holds fast to our
commitment to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system
will substitute for your Vancouver chiropractor’s hands!
Come by soon!