02/12/2026
Isn’t it though?
The amazing part is that we as chiropractors actually can’t feel your pain at all! Unless we ask, we cannot know for certain if an area is painful. But, we can make a very educated assumption based on what we feel! The reason we find that right spot is that we are trained to! We feel for asymmetry in the skeletal structure/alignment, we feel for swelling, we feel for texture and tone changes in the soft tissues such as knots in the muscles or adhesion and scar tissue in the connective tissues, we feel for temperature changes, we feel for mobility differences and restrictions in joint motion. And then we compare our findings to our knowledge base of “normal”. And this skill of palpation is how we land on just the right spot. Often without you even telling us where. :)
So thank you for noticing and reminding us how truly amazing the palpation skill of a chiropractor really is!
Yours in health,
Dr. Lindsey