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Elgin Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025
Our Elgin chiropractic patients want to know “why”! Why do I have back pain? Why do I keep getting back pain? Excellent questions that can often be answered with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Connected Chiropractic works to keep on top of the newest (with a healthy appreciation of the older!) research to share with you! Let Connected Chiropractic work with you to get some insights as to why you have spine-related pain…and how we can facilitate your path to get some relief of chronic back pain.

RESEARCHERS CALL FOR “WHY” MANUAL THERAPY WORKS

Today’s medical literature and researchers are requesting more information on ‘why” manual therapy is successful beyond recent studies supportive of the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be measured. A group of researchers analyzed published reviews of other studies regarding the mechanism of how manual therapy influences a body. They uncovered support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune modifications as well as the effectiveness of pain decrease with manual therapy. (1) All of these findings are amazing! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Connected Chiropractic appreciates the efforts of a group of researchers who have been studying the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and positive results. At the ACC-RAC chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were presented about Cox® Technic. One discussed the ability to calculate lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound during the administration of flexion distraction manipulation. The researchers highlighted the separation of the spinous process at L3L4, L4L5, L5S1 levels. (2) The second one presented how they are competent to assess the forces delivered during the Cox® Technic FDD spinal manipulation in a patient whose low back pain and leg pain were relieved. (3) The more measurements done, the more understanding of “why” something works will evolve! We can’t wait to share with our Elgin chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers plan to examine how implementing guidelines from the American College of Physicians for Low Back Pain may boost the treatment of low back pain. The guideline has been in the literature for a long time, but it’s not been implemented. A study has been approved by several Institutional Review Boards: Duke, Dartmouth, University of Iowa, and Advarra. The first line treatment recommended is non-pharmacological interventions like spinal manipulation and exercise. (4) Connected Chiropractic excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Connected Chiropractic

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr.  James Cox, developer of Cox® Technic protocols,  on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, its development, its original research, its current research, and its futuristic studies using ultrasound measurement, force application monitoring, and more.

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