For all the
talk of artificial intelligence and the future of robots
and computers in our lives, the benefit of
human touch cannot be supplanted. Chiropractic is a
hands-on profession. Novelli Wellness Center offers hands-on Orchard Park, NY
chiropractic care. Chiropractic has a long history of valuable
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
Orchard Park, NY chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is
set beginning with the first
day’s exam and extending through the whole
treatment process.
TOUCH IN THE DOCTOR PATIENT REALM
Touch in the doctor-patient relationship is
important. A new report documents
that touch can produce neuromodulatory effects to ease
pain and ease patient anxiety about the pain. Researchers
reported that the effect of touch begins with
the confident handshake and extends through the physical
examination, especially when the physician
doing the exam touches the spot
the patient says is painful. This confirms to the patient 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 negated. Your
Orchard Park, NY chiropractor at Novelli Wellness Center knows
this to be true and witnesses 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 Orchard Park, NY 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) Science seeks to quantify just how human touch affects back pain relief. Until that
is done, chiropractic physicians like your Orchard Park, NY chiropractor
will embrace the effect of touch as they provide
spinal manipulation with their hands.
Orchard Park, NY CHIROPRACTIC
TOUCH
Chiropractors depend 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 appropriate force application. Today,
though, technology may be helpful in this area as
force-feedback systems are assisting doctors acquire
that key experience. With the chiropractic technique system utilized
at Novelli Wellness Center, 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 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
Novelli Wellness Center are documented, gentle, and effective for reducing
pain and decreasing intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a
chiropractic treatment outcome combination our
Orchard Park, NY chiropractic patients want.
CONTACT Novelli Wellness Center
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.
Schedule your next Orchard Park, NY chiropractic
visit today. Novelli Wellness Center is committed to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system
will replace your Orchard Park, NY chiropractor’s hands!
See you soon!