Williamson Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Williamson chiropractic patients ask “why”! Why do I have back pain? Why do I keep getting back pain? Excellent questions that can often be clarified with examination findings aligned with research-documented findings. Research can help illuminate that, and Apple Country Chiropractic works to keep on top of the latest (with a healthy appreciation of the past!) research to communicate with you! Let Apple Country Chiropractic work with you to get some insights as to why you experience 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 asking for more information on ‘why” manual therapy is successful beyond recent studies supporting the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be assessed. A group of researchers studied published reviews of other studies regarding the means of how manual therapy influences a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune modifications as well as the value of pain reduction with manual therapy. (1) All of these findings are great! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Apple Country Chiropractic 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 presented about Cox® Technic. One discussed the ability to calculate lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound during the delivery of flexion distraction manipulation. The researchers noted separation of the spinous process at L3L4, L4L5, L5S1 levels. (2) The second one presented how they are able 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 knowledge of “why” something works will come! We can’t wait to share with our Williamson chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers plan to examine how applying guidelines from the American College of Physicians for Low Back Pain may enhance the treatment of low back pain. The guideline has been in the literature for a long time, but it has not been put into action. A study has been approved by several 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) Apple Country Chiropractic looks forward to this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Apple Country 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 foundational research, its current research, and its futuristic studies involving ultrasound measurement, force application monitoring, and more.

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