Touch is Part of Executive Chiropractic of Iowas Relieving Back Pain Care
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 replaced. Chiropractic is a hands-on profession. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa delivers hands-on West Des Moines chiropractic care. Chiropractic has an extensive history of effective manual manipulation and treatment for back pain, neck pain and related extremity pain. Touch cannot be ignored in its influence on healing and isn’t ignored by your West Des Moines chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is set starting with the first day’s exam and throughout the entire treatment process.
TOUCH IN THE DOCTOR PATIENT REALM
Touch in the relationship between doctor and patient is central. A new study shares that touch can initiate neuromodulatory effects to ease pain and ease patient anxiety about the pain. Researchers reported that the effect of touch starts with the confident handshake and extends through the physical examination, particularly when the examining physician touches the area the patient says is painful. This confirms to the patient that the doctor understands the patient’s pain. Touch also influences treatment for manual and manipulative treating physicians. (1) The effect of touch can’t be refuted. Your West Des Moines chiropractor at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa knows this to be true and sees its effect daily and is pleased to see its importance discussed in the medical literature for manual therapy’s beneficial role in the health care system for conditions like West Des Moines back pain, neck pain, arm pain, and sciatic leg pain.
EFFECT OF TOUCH
A researcher remarked 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) Science seeks to quantify just how human touch affects back pain relief. Until that is done, chiropractic physicians like your West Des Moines chiropractor will embrace the effect of touch as they deliver spinal manipulation with their hands.
West Des Moines CHIROPRACTIC TOUCH
Chiropractors depend on their sense of touch in providing the proper 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 help in this area as force-feedback systems are assisting doctors acquire that key experience. With the chiropractic technique system utilized at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa, research has documented just what those appropriate, pain-relieving forces are. (3,4) Force-measuring equipment has been created and integrated 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 Executive Chiropractic of Iowa are documented, gentle, and efficient for reducing pain and dropping intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a chiropractic treatment outcome arrangement our West Des Moines chiropractic patients want.
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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 West Des Moines chiropractic visit today. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa holds fast to our commitment to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system will replace your West Des Moines chiropractor’s hands! See you soon!
