Touch is Part of Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLCs Relieving Back Pain Care
For all the news of artificial intelligence and the future of robots and computers in our lives, the positive effect of human touch cannot be supplanted. Chiropractic is a hands-on profession. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC delivers hands-on La Grande chiropractic care. Chiropractic has a long history of valuable manual manipulation and treatment for back pain, neck pain and related extremity pain. Touch can’t be dismissed in its contribution to healing and isn’t ignored by your La Grande chiropractor as your pain-relieving treatment plan is set beginning with the first day’s exam and extending through the entire treatment process.
TOUCH IN THE DOCTOR PATIENT REALM
Touch in the doctor-patient relationship is fundamental. A new study shares that touch can produce neuromodulatory effects to ease pain and ease patient anxiety about the pain. Researchers wrote that the effect of touch begins with the confident handshake and continues through the physical examination, particularly when the examining physician touches the spot the patient explains is painful. This confirms to the patient that the doctor gets the patient’s pain. Touch also extends into treatment for manual and manipulative treating physicians. (1) The impact of touch can’t be negated. Your La Grande chiropractor at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC knows this to be 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 La Grande back pain, neck pain, arm pain, and sciatic leg pain.
EFFECT OF TOUCH
A researcher remarked on a leading 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 La Grande chiropractor will embrace the effect of touch as they deliver spinal manipulation with their hands.
La Grande 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 proper force application. Today, though, technology may be helpful in this area as force-feedback systems are assisting doctors gain that key experience. With the chiropractic technique system utilized at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC, research has reported just what those appropriate, pain-relieving forces are. (3,4) Force-measuring equipment has been developed and integrated into teaching and daily-use chiropractic tables. (As a bonus, in performing the research study to test forces with patients, no serious adverse effects were produced. “First, do no harm.”) (5,6) The Cox® Technic flexion distraction procedures used at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC are documented, gentle, and effective for reducing pain and decreasing intradiscal pressures (7,8). That is a chiropractic treatment outcome combination our La Grande chiropractic patients seek.
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Listen to 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.
Make your next La Grande chiropractic visit soon. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is committed to hands-on treatment for pain relief. No computer or AI system will replace your La Grande chiropractor’s hands! Come by soon!
