Manchester Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Manchester chiropractic patients ask “why”! Why do I have back pain? Why do I keep getting back pain? Excellent questions that may oftentimes be answered with examination findings aligned with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries works to keep abreast of the newest (with a healthy appreciation of the past!) research to communicate with you! Let Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries work with you to get some understanding as to why you suffer with 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 works beyond current studies supporting the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be measured. A group of researchers analyzed published reviews of other studies regarding the means of how manual therapy influences a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune changes as well as the effectiveness of pain decrease with manual therapy. (1) All of these discoveries are amazing! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries values the efforts of a group of researchers who have been looking at the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and positive outcomes. 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 throughout 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 measure the forces delivered throughout 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 knowledge of “why” something works will come! We are so excited to share with our Manchester 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 enhance the treatment of low back pain. The guideline has been around for a long time, but it’s 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 recommended is non-pharmacological interventions like spinal manipulation and exercise. (4) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox, developer of Cox® Technic protocols, on 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 using ultrasound measurement, force application observing, and more.

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