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New Roads Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

Our New Roads chiropractic clients want to know “why”! Why do I suffer with back pain?Why does back pain keep coming back? Understandable questions that may oftentimes be clarified with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help illuminate that, and New Roads Chiropractic Center works to keep on top of the latest (with a healthy gratitude of the older!)  research to share with you! Let New Roads Chiropractic Center work with you to get some understanding 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 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 regarding the means of how manual therapy affects 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 know more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

New Roads Chiropractic Center values 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 annual chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were presented on Cox® Technic studies. One showed the ability to assess 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 discussed 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 alleviated. (3) The more measurements done, the more understanding of “why” something works will come! We can’t wait to share with our New Roads 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 enhance the care 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 multiple Institutional Review Boards: Duke, Dartmouth, University of Iowa, and Advarra.  The first line treatment endorsed is non-pharmacological interventions like spinal manipulation (which is chiropractic forte!) and exercise. (4) New Roads Chiropractic Center looks forward to this study’s outcomes! It’s time!

CONTACT New Roads Chiropractic Center

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

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