Tonawanda Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Tonawanda chiropractic clients want to know “why”! Why do I have back pain? Why do I keep getting back pain? Outstanding questions that can often be answered with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation works to keep on top of the latest (with a healthy gratitude of the older!) research to share with you! Let Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation work with you to get some understanding as to why you experience spine-related pain…and how we can help you 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 supporting the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be measured. A group of researchers studied published reviews of other studies involving the means of how manual therapy influences a body. They uncovered support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune modifications as well as the effectiveness of pain reduction with manual therapy. (1) All of these discoveries are amazing! They want to know more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation appreciates the efforts of a group of researchers who have been studying the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and beneficial results. At the ACC-RAC chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were delivered about Cox® Technic. One showed the ability to calculate lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound during the administration of flexion distraction manipulation. The researchers noted separation of the spinous process at L3L4, L4L5, L5S1 levels. (2) The second one discussed how they are competent to measure the forces delivered throughout 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 come! We are so excited to share with our Tonawanda chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers have planned a new project to test how implementing guidelines from the American College of Physicians for Low Back Pain may boost the care of low back pain. The guideline has been around for a long time, but it has not been put into action. A study has been approved by multiple Institutional Review Boards: Duke, Dartmouth, University of Iowa, and Advarra. The first line treatment endorsed is non-pharmacological interventions like spinal manipulation and exercise. (4) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It’s time!

CONTACT Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation

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 foundational research, its current research, and its futuristic studies using ultrasound measurement, force application observing, and more.

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